Directed by Victor Seastrom
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
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Lillian Gish leaves Virginia for the windy west, very windy west. She moves in with her step brother and his wife in their broken down shack where the wind and dust are literally coming through the cracks. His wife doesn't like having a young, pretty girl in the house and huffs and puffs in a jealous rage. Meanwhile, Lillian is courted by every man within miles, which amounts to 3, one an old coot and another already married, so she marries the third even though she doesn't even know his name. He is ecstatic, but she won't let him touch her, so things don't go so well. The married man shows up during a raging dust storm and rapes her, so she shoots him and realizes that she loves her husband after all. Some good scenes of blowing dirt and a tornado, but the symbolism is too forced and the melodrama naive.
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