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Way Down East is a american film of genre Drama directed by D. W. Griffith released in USA on 3 september 1920 with Lillian Gish

Way Down East (1920)

Way Down East
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Released in USA 3 september 1920
Length 2h25
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Action,    Romance
Rating72% 3.6451753.6451753.6451753.6451753.645175

Way Down East is a 1920 American silent romantic drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. It is one of four film adaptations of the melodramatic 19th century play Way Down East by Lottie Blair Parker. There were two earlier silent versions, and one sound version in 1935 starring Henry Fonda.

Griffith's version is particularly remembered for its exciting climax in which Lillian Gish's character is rescued from doom on an icy river. Some sources, quoting newspaper ads of the time, say a sequence was filmed in an early color process, possibly Technicolor or Prizmacolor.

Synopsis

The rich, typified by the handsome man-about-town Lennox (Lowell Sherman), are exceptionally selfish and think only of their own pleasure.

Actors

Lillian Gish

(Anna Moore)Richard Barthelmess

(David Bartlett)Lowell Sherman

(Lennox Sanderson)Burr McIntosh

(Squire Bartlett)Kate Bruce

(Mother Bartlett)
And :
Creighton Hale
Mary Hay
Emily Fitzroy
Carol Dempster
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