Headline
Griffith Film Scenes: Pretentiously Ambitious - 'Way Down East'
Newspaper Source
Publication Date
1922-11-02
- Publication Year
1922
Page
5
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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Summary
In the motion picture production of 'Way Down East,' David W. Griffith spent ten months to take the scenes. Moreover, the producer has followed closely the original stage drama tale of Lottie Blair Parker and Joseph R. Grismer, and the elaborations occur in the visualising the big scenes. It is observed that enthusiastic throngs of prominent people flocked to the Forty-fourth Street Theatre in New York City for the premier showing there and paid as high as ten dollars for a single seat.
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