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Status
Released
Release
1919
Runtime
1h 3m
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"50 000 PLAYERS TAKE PART FOUR THOUSAND DANCING GIRLS 10,500 HORSES and WILD BEASTS"
After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his epic film three years later by releasing two of the film's interlocking stories as standalone features, with some new additional footage. The first of the two was 'The Fall of Babylon', which depicts the conflict between Prince Belshazzar of Babylon and Cyrus the Great of Persia.
