Wind, The (1928) - (Movie Clip) Lillian Gish Introduction

Wind, The (1928) -- (Movie Clip) Ghost Horse

Southern Letty (Lillian Gish) on her trip west to visit cousin Cora (Dorothy Cumming), getting a lift from cowboy Lige (Lars Hanson), with fantasy, then getting on too well with Cora's husband Bev (Edward Earle), early in Victor Seastrom's The Wind, 1928.

Wind, The (1928) -- (Movie Clip) Awful Forsaken Place

Out of town Letty (Lillian Gish) dressed up for the dance, cowboys Sourdough (William Orlamond) and Lige (Lars Hanson) both making unlikely bids for her hand, the more viable Roddy (Montagu Love) getting closer, when a storm blows up, in Victor Seastrom's The Wind, 1928.

Wind, The (1928) -- (Movie Clip) You've Been My Wife A Whole Hour

Desperate Southerner Letty (MGM star Lillian Gish, who wrote the story outline herself), having alienated the Western relatives she was visiting, has just married rough-hewn cowboy Lige (Lars Hanson) and appears unready for the ramifications, in The Wind, 1928, directed by Victor Sjostrom.

Wind, The (1928) -- (Movie Clip) Puny But Irresistible

Director Victor Sjostrom’s opening, from the novel by Dorothy Scarborough, Frances Marion’s script and, in between, a story outline by star Lillian Gish, in which she, as “Letty,” begins a journey west, predatory Montagu Love as “Roddy” imposing himself, in MGM’s The Wind, 1928.