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Description:20 25 05 00 Costume film, France, Paris. French revolution, XVIII-th. On the spot execution in front of crowd. Guillotine. The condemned persons are taken on a cart. Lilian Gish is taken on scaffold. During this time, Danton, Monte Blue pleads for the defence and asks for grace for her, for emphatic Speech, for eloquent plea. Danton big speaker. Close-up young aristocrat, Joseph Schildkraut is taken to the scaffold. Opposition judges and Danton in the court. Close-up Robespierre with its deceitful air which listens, Sidney Herbert. During this time, the cart which takes Lilian Gish is arrested by the angry people in the street. They want to lynch her. They put him a crown on the head, looks like the tortured Christ. Symbol of the suffering.
