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"Summary: Melodrama about a young woman who is lured into a fake marriage, becomes pregnant and is abandoned. She moves to a small town and falls in love with a wealthy but humble man, but cannot escape her scandalous past."
"Griffith billed this film as a "simple tale of plain people." This modest remark does little to convey the scale and significance of one of this director's most ambitious works and his most popular after Birth of a nation."@en
"A poor country girl is tricked into a fake marriage and has an illegitimate child who dies. After starting a new life, her past is exposed and she is evicted into a blizzard."
"A poor country girl is tricked into a fake marriage and has an illegitimate child who dies. After starting a new life, her past is exposed and she is evicted into a blizzard. The girl almost drowns, but is rescued by the farmer's son who marries her."@en
"A melodrama about a poor country girl who is tricked into a false marriage."@en
"Une pauvre orpheline, abusée par un séducteur, accouche d'un enfant mort-né. Elle devient servante sur une ferme dont les propriétaires la chassent lorsque son séducteur leur dévoile son passé. Elle s'en va, se trouve prise dans la débâcle d'un fleuve, mais le fils de la maison la sauve de la noyade et l'épouse."
"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. D.W. Griffith's penchant for Victorian melodrama reached its height of expression in Way down east. First performed in 1898, Lottie Blair Parker's play was one of the most successful stageworks 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)."@en
"The wholesome story of the wronged girl [Lillian Gish] to whom true love [Richard Barthelmess] comes after many trials and tribulations. Musical soundtrack."
"The callous rich, portrayed by Lennox, think only of their own pleasure. Anna is but a poor country girl whom Lennox tricks into a fake wedding. She believes that it is true, but secret, while he has his way with her. When she is pregnant, he leaves her and she must have the baby, named Trust Lennox, on her own. When the baby dies she wanders until she gets a job with Squire Bartlett. David falls for her, but she rejects him due to her past and then Lennox shows up lusting for Kate. Seeing Anna, he tries to get her to leave, but she doesn't, and she tells no one about his past. When Squire Bartlett learns of her past from Martha, the town gossip, he tosses Anna out in a snow storm. But before she goes, she fingers the respected Lennox, as the father of her dead baby and the spoiler of herself."
"A country girl is tricked into a fake marriage by a lecherous playboy. He deserts her when she becomes pregnant. After the death of the baby she seeks refuge in the house of a puritanical squire. The melodramatic cliche of the original play is transformed, suffused with the timelessness of myth by Griffith and the principal players. The extraordinary delicacy and intensity of Gish is well complemented by the playing of Barthelmess as the country boy. The final scenes of fragility against the elements in the blizzard and on the icefloe (filmed at some risk to Gish and Barthelmess) are a tour-de-force of staging, composition and editing."@en
"Subtitled "a simple story of plain people" this melodrama finds heroine Gish, disgraced by an illigitimate birth, seeking solace among the ice floes."
"The story of a poor orphan girl who is seduced and gives birth to a child that later dies. She becomes a servant on a farm and falls in love with the farmer's son. When her seducer suddenly reappears, a series of melodramatic events ensues. (Circulates)."
"Story deals with a poor but honest country girl who is tricked into a fake marriage by a callous city playboy. Silent with original orchestral score."
"Melodrama about a young woman who is lured into a fake marriage, becomes pregnant and is abandoned. She moves to a small town and falls in love with a wealthy but humble man, but cannot escape her scandalous past."
"Melodrama about a young woman who is lured into a fake marriage, becomes pregnant and is abandoned. She moves to a small town and falls in love with a wealthy but humble man, but cannot escape her scandalous past."@en
"A tragic heroine is tricked into an illegal marriage and then made to suffer the consequences of her wicked ways by the small-minded townsfolk."
"A tear-jerker melodrama was masterfully adapted to film in this epic story of a young girl who was seduced and abandoned. The chase on the ice is one of the most familiar images from early films. Lillian Gish stars in her most famous role. This is the complete roadshow version copied in color from a 35mm version. Directed by D.W. Griffith. Silent, with orchestral score expanded from the 1928 reissue."
"D.W. Griffith, the son of a Confederate colonel ruined by the Civil War, brought his fascination with race and victimized women to the screen in both the one reelers and the features that he directed. Titles like "The Greaser's Gauntlet", "Romance of a Jewess", and "The Hindoo Dagger" were made in a time when xenophobia was rampant in American culture. In Way Down East, an innocent country girl is tricked into a fake marriage by a manipulative playboy who abandons her when she becomes pregnant. After the death of her baby she seeks refuge in the house of a puritanical squire. The squire's son falls in love with her, and all appears to be well until he learns of her earlier seduction. Turned out of the squire's house in a snow storm she attempts to cross a frozen river. The final scenes on the ice (filmed at some risk to actors Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess) are a tour-de-force of direction and editing. Some of these scenes were filmed at White River Junction in Vermont, the climatic ice floe scene was filmed at Orient Point, Long Island."@en
""A country girl is seduced; her baby dies, her shame is revealed; but a kindly farmer rescues her from drowning and marries her"--Halliwell's film guide."
"A country girl is tricked into a false marriage by a callous city playboy."
"Melodrama about a poor country girl who is lured into a false marriage, has a child, and is abandoned."
"A young orphan girl is seduced and has a baby which dies. She is taken on as a servant by a farming family, but when her guilty past is revealed the farmer turns her out of the house into the wintry countryside. The girl almost drowns, but is rescued by the farmer's son who marries her."@en
"A young orphan girl is seduced and has a baby which dies. She is taken on as a servant by a farming family, but when her guilty past is revealed the farmer turns her out of the house into the wintry countryside. The girl almost drowns, but is rescued by the farmer's son who marries her."
"A melodrama about a poor country girl who is tricked into a false marriage, has a child and is abandoned."
"A poor New England girl moves in with her wealthy cousins. She is seduced by a lothario who stages a mock wedding, and then abandons her. In a small town, Anna meets a local squire, but is haunted by her past. The winter-storm sequence on an ice-floe is famous for its realism."
"Melodrama about a young woman who is lured into a fake marriage, has a child and is abandoned."@en
"Based on a popular 19th century play, "Way down east" is a poignant melodrama about a poor country girl who is tricked into a fake marriage and has an illegitimate child who dies. After starting a new life, her past is exposed and she is evicted into a raging blizzard, pursued by the young man who secretly loves her."@en
"An excellent melodrama about a young woman lured into a fake marriage, has a child, and is abandoned. Too bad!"
"A country girl is seduced; her baby dies; her "shame" is revealed; but a kindly farmer rescues her from drowning and marries her."@en
""Faced with financial difficulties, innocent country girl Anna Moore goes to visit her rich Boston relatives, the Tremonts, to seek aid. There she becomes the victim of a false marriage to playboy Lennox Sanderson. Deserted by the man she thought was her husband, Anna is left penniless and alone to face the birth of her nameless child. After her mother's death, Anna takes refuge in a rooming house in Belden where her baby dies. Turned out by an unsympathetic landlady, the brokenhearted mother finds employment at the farm of Squire Bartlett, a stern but just man, who believes in a strict accounting for sin. The squire's son David falls in love with Anna, and she is about to accept her new found happiness when Sanderson appears and the squire learns that Anna had lived with him in sin. He turns the girl from the house in a blinding snow storm, and hysterical, she stumbles onto the frozen river where she faints. Her rescue by David from the drifting ice and certain death brings about their union after the squire and his wife learn Anna's true story"--AFI catalog, 1911-1920."
"A young woman is tricked into a false marriage, becomes pregnant, and finds herself out on her own with tragic results."
"Anna, a poor country girl, is tricked into a fake wedding with a young, rich landowner."
"When the checkered past of a farm family's servant girl comes to light, the family prevents her marriage to the eldest son by casting her out. The son sorts out the details of her past and goes after her, claiming her for his bride."@en

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