Considered Griffith’s last masterpiece, Orphans of the Storm was the final film collaboration between the great film director and his muse, Lillian Gish. Griffith gave the original scenario, based on Adolph Ennery’s 19th-century French play The Two Orphans, a much-needed twist by changing the setting to the French Revolution. Using the social and political upheaval as his backdrop, Orphans of the Storm became Griffith’s anti-communist manifesto.