What a waste of my time!!!

Absolutely Fantastic

A lot of fun.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

As the movie name suggests, the Wind plays a very important role in this silent Western. The Wind can be taken as a symbolic depiction of the mood and the mind of the lead actress. The story of an Eastern lady coming to the old, wild and windy west where the nearest neighbors are about 15 miles away. She has to adjust not only with the un favourable windy weather but also with the unfavourable nature of people around. I would call this a path breaking ahead of it's time flick with a very sophisticated message for that time. Add to it, some genuinely good camera-work, and this movie is an instant classic. For Western fans - This is not a typical western, the only action you will get is the turbulent mind of the actress trying to adjust with the turbulence around her.Lillian Gish was the silent movie superstar and also has the distinction of working for the maximum number of years in movies. She is what I would like to call an ice cold beauty. She is the soul of this film and has depicted the emotions pretty well. I would suggest everyone to watch this movie once.Rating : 8/10

A really scary movie. Count poor Letty's (Gish) frustrations after leaving the train. It's just one menacing disappointment after another, whether the two uncouth louts (Hanson & Orlamond), the muscular Cora, that dinner from heck, or the hellish wind that never lets up. Whatever else, this is a first-rate horror movie, much more effective than the splatter movies of today. Get a load of butcher Cora just standing next to the splayed steer carcass, knife in hand. If I were Letty, I wouldn't walk, I'd run back to Virginia. There are so many arresting images, thanks to director Seastrom (I believe)-- the empty horizon swept bare by the blow, the spectral stallion running wild with Letty's fears, and the clawing at the window. The wind and dust forever clawing. Never has a force of nature been transformed so effectively into an infernal presence. Poor Letty. Watch her features twist as the anguish grows. Forget the happy, unbelievable ending. That was a studio surrender no one in production agreed with—at least, according to a Gish. A truer ending was apparently filmed, but MGM brass buckled under the grimness. Too bad. This is the stuff of bad dreams, especially since it's wordless. I think I understand now what my friends from Kansas used to say—"It's just that old Devil Wind showing who's boss". Great movie.

A young girl moves out from Virginia to live with her cousin at Sweet Waters. She finds out that where she is heading, it is the Land of the Winds and that the wind there always blows and the sand is carried away with it. This wind is so vicious that people tend to loose their minds by it. Its ferocity "blows" away peoples' logic and they sleigh day by day into insanity, and this applies specially to women. Lillian Gish, who plays the young girl Letty, is a great actress who can really feel her part. She has such a great performance in this film that you can't help but bond with the young girl and you can really understand how she feels in every situation in the film. Her performance is just brilliant. Lars Hanson is the lead male actor and he too has a great performance that can stand beside hers. All the other cast was good as well. The director Victor Sjöström has done an excellent work with this film. I really wish I could somehow see the original ending of this film as well. In my opinion, this film is really brilliant. Never forget what the people went trough in those times to create such magnificent films.

I have no idea how this film bombed at the box office, because it was incredible to watch. Lars Hanson and Lillian Gish's acting steal the movie, but I found myself on the edge of my seat wondering what would happen next all the way from the first scene to the last. That is what a movie is all about- making the viewer anticipate on what will happen next not just sit there and correctly guess scene after scene. I will say that I saw this film at the 2009 San Francisco Silent Film Festival with an AMAZING live wurlitzer-which added an extra element to the film that made it an amazing performance. What breaks and makes a silent film (usually but not always) is defiantly the score of the film, and i'm quite sure that Lillian Gish would have loved the live music!