Way Down East - Way Down East - Movies - Kino Lorber Films - 0738329083724 - November 22, 2011
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Way Down East

Way Down East

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Way Down East

D.W. Griffith's penchant for Victorian melodrama reached it's height of expression in WAY DOWN EAST. First performed in 1898, Lottie Blair Parker's play was one of the most successful stage works 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.


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Media Movies     Blu-ray   (Blu-ray Disc)
Number of discs 1
Released November 22, 2011
EAN/UPC 0738329083724
Label Kino Lorber Films KV837BR
Genre Drama-classics (Silent Films)
Dimensions 135 × 177 × 16 mm   ·   117 g
Playtime 02:29:00
Region code Region A   (Americas, East and Southeast Asia)
Language English  
Director D.W. Griffith
Skuespiller Lillian Gish
Skuespiller Richard Barthelmess
Skuespiller Lowell Sherman
Skuespiller Burr McIntosh
Skuespiller Kate Bruce
Skuespiller Emily Fitzroy

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