Way Down East (Kino) (Silent)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 18, 2008
- Originally Released: 1920
- Label: Kino Lorber
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Lillian Gish | |
Performer: | Lowell Sherman, Richard Barthelmess, Mary Hay & Creighton Hale | |
Directed by | D.W. Griffith | |
Edited by | James Smith & Rose Smith | |
Screenwriting by | Anthony Paul Kelly, Joseph R. Grismer & D.W. Griffith | |
Composition by | Louis Silvers & William F. Peters | |
Produced by | D.W. Griffith | |
Director of Photography: | Billy Bitzer & Henrik Sortov |
Entertainment Reviews:
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
Rating: 5/5 --
Classic feminist film
Classic Film and Television
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
With the gathering together of a relatively small cast and less than half a dozen stellar film artists, D.W. has taken a simple, elemental, old-fashioned, bucolic melodrama and milked it for 12 reels of absorbing entertainment.
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Variety
...The film remains a bruising attack on the sexual double standard...
USA Today
...An enormously popular movie....[With] one of cinema's most famous scenes...
USA Today
[Lillian Gish's] virtuoso performance makes the heroine's growth from gullible innocence to bitter experience credible.
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Time Out
Description by OLDIES.com:
D.W. Griffith's penchant for Victorian melodrama reached its height of expression in Way Down East. First performed in 1898, Lottie Blair Parker's play was one of the most successful stageworks ever written, a theatrical chestnut, heavy with sentiment, that cried out for the touch of the master. Griffith captured the appeal of Parker's original, while embossing it with devices borrowed from other popular melodramas, such as the climactic chase across an ice floe (inspired by stage adaptations of Uncle Tom's Cabin).
Lillian Gish stars as a small-town girl who is seduced, impregnated, and cast aside by Lennox Sanderson, a wealthy playboy (Lowell Sherman). To escape the shame of having a fatherless child, Anna changes her name and starts a new life in a small farming community, where she meets David, an icon of male virtue and decency (Richard Barthelmess). Their delicate happiness is threatened when Lennox arrives in town, and word of Anna's unsavory past begins to spread.
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: 60,776
- UPC: 738329064020
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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