Kansas families who were evicted and uprooted from heir "Dust Bowl" farm land, and forced to search westward in the inhospitable Eden of California for jobs and survival with housands of other migrant workers.BackgroundDirector D.W.Griffith""s expensive, most ambitious silent film masterpieceIntolerance(1916) is one of the milestones and landmarks in cinematic history...then he""s still there."Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)The film was filled with horror-film cliches, such as spooky music (screeching violins similar toPsycho""s and Bernard Hermann""s soundtrack), false alarms, crazed characters, red herrings, dead phone lines, sex before death, cat-and-mouse style killings, premonitions of terror, subjective ("point-of-view") camera work stalkings, a terrific rainstorm, the concluding boo-moment (similar toCarrie (1976)), a Friday the 13th full-moon, etc.As Phillip was paralyzed on his bed, Freddy slashed large bloodless grooves down the length of each of his arms and legs -- and then pulled one long strand of sinewy muscle tissue (or endon) out of each incision.That evening, a private catered dinner party (prepared by her chef) was hurriedly set up in Marie""s Wayland Hotel suite, where she planned to graciously entertain the exclusively-invited guests with piano playing (by Mr.