The British newspaper, "The Guardian," in 1999 reviewed the work of director Victor Sjöström and they wrote, "And in America his three most famous works—"He Who Gets Slapped" (1924), "The Scarlet Letter" (1926) and "The Wind" (1928)—each dealt with human suffering. "The Wind" is almost certainly the best—a silent classic, revived in recent years by producer/director Kevin Brownlow with a Carl Davis score, which gave the great Lillian Gish one of the finest parts of her career...Sjostrom treats the inevitable clash between Letty and her new surroundings with considerable realism and detail, allowing Gish as much leeway as possible to develop her performance. The entire film was shot in the Mojave Desert under conditions of great hardship and difficulty and this was probably the first 'Western' that tried for truth as well as dramatic poetry. One of its masterstrokes, which looks far less self-conscious than any description of it may seem, is the moment