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Description:20 20 51 00 Costume film, France, Paris. French revolution, XVIII-th. Square, execution in front of crowd, the condemned persons are going to be guillotined. The crowd exults, hysteric. Capital punishment. Women knit by waiting for the come of the condemned persons, execution looks like a spectacle. Executioner hoist the blade. Man gives the signal, executioners activate the guillotine, close-up of the mechanism, the blade fall, chopper. The guards attach Lilian Gish's hands, condemned to death. But suddenly Danton recognizes her, Monte Blue. He does not understand wants to intervene so that she is saved. Of highly-rated sound, Joseph Shildkraut is taken on a cart to be executed. Danton returns to the court so that she is pardoned. During this time, Gish is all the same taken to be executed.
