安娜(葛丽泰·嘉宝 Greta Garbo 饰)是一名妓女,她的父亲终日沉迷于酒精之中,对女儿毫不关心。除了要照顾父亲之外,安娜还要照顾父亲的姘头玛瑟(玛丽·杜丝勒 Marie Dressler 饰)。玛瑟是一个狡猾又贪婪的女人,常常在安娜的身上揩油。
一次,安娜生病住进了医院,好不容易出院后,安娜发誓再也不要过以前那种糜烂的生活了。她决定金盆洗手洗心革面。住进了父亲的小船的安娜过了一段平静的日子,一天,一位名叫马特(查尔斯·比克福德 Charles Bickford 饰)的海员闯入了安娜的生活,他疯狂的爱上了安娜。马特的存在让安娜开始相信爱情,对未来产生了憧憬。
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.
The 500,000 strong Napoleon's army moves through Russia and causes much destruction culminating in the battle of Borodino. The Russian army has to retreat. Moscow is occupied, looted and burned down, but soon Napoleon loses control and has to flee. Both sides suffer tremendous losses in the war, and Russian society is left irrevocably changed.
As Moscow is set ablaze by the ret...