Way Down East (Blu-ray)
A simple story for plain people.
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Blu-ray Details
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: November 22, 2011
- Originally Released: 1920
- Label: Kino Lorber
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Lillian Gish | |
Performer: | Creighton Hale, Mary Hay, Richard Barthelmess & Lowell Sherman | |
Directed by | D.W. Griffith | |
Edited by | James Smith & Rose Smith | |
Screenwriting by | Anthony Paul Kelly, Joseph R. Grismer & D.W. Griffith | |
Composition by | William F. Peters & Louis Silvers | |
Produced by | D.W. Griffith | |
Director of Photography: | Billy Bitzer & Henrik Sortov |
Entertainment Reviews:
Spectacular to look at, emotionally engaging and with a conclusion that still sends a shiver down the spine.
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Film4
Rating: 5/5 --
Justly celebrated for the climactic sequence where Gish, drifting unconscious on a raft of ice in a storm, is rescued by Barthelmess, the film offers many less obvious moments that are just as memorable.
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Radio Times
Through his star, Lillian Gish, Griffith gives the story an emotional power that lifts this 1920 silent feature to the level of a folktale; it becomes something simple, strong, and timeless.
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Chicago Reader
[Lillian Gish's] virtuoso performance makes the heroine's growth from gullible innocence to bitter experience credible.
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Time Out
...An enormously popular movie....[With] one of cinema's most famous scenes...
USA Today
Rating: C+ --
Old-fashioned bucolic soap opera doesn't translate well to modern-times.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
It is difficult to write of this latest picture without dealing almost entirely in superlatives. Lillian Gish has discovered new ways of making you love her, and surely no one else could make that wishy-washy Anna Moore a real person!
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New York Tribune
Product Description:
Innocent Anna (Lillian Gish, in a terrific performance) is sent by her poverty-stricken mother to visit rich relations in Boston, where she is seduced into a sham marriage by a smooth-talking scoundrel (Lowell Sherman). When she becomes pregnant, he abandons her; later, the baby dies. Now a social outcast, she changes her name and eventually finds shelter at the estate of the sternly religious Squire Bartlett (Burr McIntosh). She falls in love with his handsome son (Richard Barthelmess), but cannot divulge to him her terrible secret for fear of his father's righteous fury. D.W. Griffith (BIRTH OF A NATION) directed this film with his usual blend of powerfully cinematic storytelling and scathing social commentary. Rustic New England and New York locations provide a gorgeous backdrop to the proceedings, and the climax, where poor Anna becomes lost in a winter storm, and is swept down the river on ice floes, is one of silent cinema's peak moments.
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- Sales Rank: 107,351
- UPC: 738329083724
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