Headline
Way Down East': Hold Pride of Place
Newspaper Source
Publication Date
1923-12-04
- Publication Year
1923
Page
6
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
We have written a tale of our lives. For a sheltered people's mirth, in jesting guise, but ye are wise, and ye know what the jest is worth.' Such as the apt quotation used by a leading New York journalist in a criticism of D. W. Griffith's monumental picture 'Way Down East.' No film yet produced has created quite such a furor in artistic circles. The Hon. Rober Bolingbrook, in an address said, 'Just as inspired composers sometimes have taken simple street tunes, and glorified them into symphonies of grandeur and power, so has a golden alchemy transformed this sturdy play.' The picture has recently been brought back to enormous business in London and New York.
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