Pippa awakes and faces the world outside with a song. Unbeknown to her, the music has a healing effect on all who hear her as she passes by.
Direction
Griffith's early cross-cutting weaves four lives together.
Acting
Robinson's wordless joy contrasts with surrounding despair.
Production
1909 Biograph studio craft on a shoestring budget.
Director
D.W. Griffith
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Robert Browning's 1841 verse drama, a staple of Victorian literary education that Griffith assumed his audience knew by heart.
Linda Arvidson, playing the Greek Model, was Griffith's wife at the time — their marriage would collapse spectacularly within years.
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