Headline
Way Down East': Close to the Human Heart - Why Griffith Selected It
Newspaper Source
Publication Date
1922-11-10
- Publication Year
1922
Page
9
Key Person
Film Projector / Film(s)
Way Down East
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Actors
Lillian Gish
Director
D.W. Griffith
Writer
Lottie Blair Parker (from the play by)
Country
USA
Released
1920-09-03
Runtime
145 min
Genre
Drama
Language
None
Plot
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.
Rated
Passed
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The Birth of a Nation
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Actors
Lillian Gish
Director
D.W. Griffith
Writer
Thomas Dixon Jr. (adapted from his novel: "The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan")
Country
USA
Released
1915-03-21
Runtime
195 min
Genre
Drama
Language
None
Plot
The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
Awards
2 wins.
Rated
TV-PG
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Broken Blossoms
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Actors
Lillian Gish
Director
D.W. Griffith
Writer
Thomas Burke (adapted from 'The Chink and the Child' by)
Country
USA
Released
1919-10-20
Runtime
90 min
Genre
Drama
Language
None
Plot
A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.
Awards
1 win.
Rated
Not Rated
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Hearts of the World
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Actors
Lillian Gish
Director
D.W. Griffith
Writer
D.W. Griffith (English translation)
Country
USA
Released
1918-06-01
Runtime
117 min
Genre
Drama
Language
None
Plot
Young lovers in a French village are torn apart with the coming of the Great War.
Rated
TV-PG
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The Old Homestead
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Actors
Theodore Roberts
Director
James Cruze
Writer
Julien Josephson
Country
USA
Released
1922-10-08
Runtime
80 min
Genre
Drama
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Shore Acres
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Actors
Alice Lake
Director
Rex Ingram
Writer
James A. Herne (play)
Country
USA
Released
1920-05-16
Runtime
60 min
Genre
Drama
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York State Folks
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Actors
James Lackaye
Director
Harry Jackson
Writer
Arthur C. Sidman (play)
Country
USA
Released
1915-08-16
Genre
Drama
Language
English
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Summary
Way Down East,' a production of David Wark Griffith based on the old play by Lottie Blair Parker, will come to the Coronet Theatre on Monday. David Wark Griffith is known for 'The Birth of a Nation,' 'Intolerance,' 'Broken Blossoms,' and 'Hearts of the World.' Conversations with David Wark Griffith are outlined. It is stated by him that, 'there could be no better American propaganda than such stories and plays as 'Way Down East', 'The Old Homestead', 'Shore Acres', and 'York State Folks'.'
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