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.
Run Time
145 min, Spain:165 min, USA:107 min (1931 re-release), 126 min (Alpha Video)
Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Genre
Drama, Romance
Keyword
Country Girl, Fake Wedding, Party, Summer, Melodrama
Movie Rating
Sound Mix
Silent
Colour
Black and White
Film Type
Feature
Film Class
Melodrama
Themes
Small-Town Life, Haunted By the Past, Servants and Employers
Way Down East (1920) is a silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. It is the best known 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.
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