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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 of the same name by Lottie Blair Parker .
- D. W. Griffith (uncredited)
- Louis Silvers, William Frederick Peters
- September 3, 1920
Way Down East: Directed by D.W. Griffith. With Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Mrs. David Landau, Lowell Sherman. A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
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Gish stars as Anna Moore who hails from "way down east," or that part of Maine that is east of Boston. Anna's sojourn into the city leads to her seduction by society cad Lennox Sanderson, who deserts her once she becomes pregnant.
- D. W. Griffith
- Lillian Gish
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Way Down East. Rent Way Down East on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. An unwed mother (Lillian Gish) is abandoned, then banished in a blizzard and set adrift on ice floes.
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Nov 25, 2009 · Richard Brody. Way Down East. November 25, 2009. In 1919 and 1920, in the midst of an epochal boom of urbanization, D. W. Griffith filmed “Way Down East,” a pastoral melodrama set in a...
