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Way Down East
Anna is tricked into a fake wedding by the rich man - Lennox. But Lennox is a womanizer. He leaves her when she becomes pregnant. She loses everything. And she tries to rebuild her life despite her past.
27 December 1878, St. Joseph, Missouri, USA
22 August 1901, Fort Bliss, Texas, USA
11 October 1888, San Francisco, California, USA
24 May 1889, County Cork, Ireland
21 March 1869, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
17 October 1865, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
19 May 1889, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
25 January 1882, Tower City, Pennsylvania, USA
9 May 1895, New York City, New York, USA
17 February 1860, Columbus, Indiana, USA
May 24, 2003
The movie is today noted chiefly for its legendary climactic episode: a harrowingly realistic sequence in which the hero hurdles a succession of floating ice blocks to save the heroine from being washed over the falls.
August 19, 2013
Spectacular to look at, emotionally engaging and with a conclusion that still sends a shiver down the spine.
January 01, 2000
Through his star, Lillian Gish, Griffith gives the story an emotional power that lifts this 1920 silent feature to the level of a folktale; it becomes something simple, strong, and timeless.
August 13, 2005
Classic feminist film
July 25, 2007
If you are not moved at the scene of Gish baptizing her dead baby, then you should check the obituaries of your local paper to see if you are listed.
January 07, 2012
This is melodramatic soap opera at its most blatant and at its very best.
January 26, 2006
[Lillian Gish's] virtuoso performance makes the heroine's growth from gullible innocence to bitter experience credible.
May 27, 2007
Old-fashioned bucolic soap opera doesn't translate well to modern-times.
January 01, 2000
What's amazing is that so much of Gish's tough, funny, intuitive performance, particularly in the film's middle section as she bears her illegitimate child, transcends time, place and technology.
August 12, 2014
Justly celebrated for the climactic sequence where Gish, drifting unconscious on a raft of ice in a storm, is rescued by Barthelmess, the film offers many less obvious moments that are just as memorable.
March 26, 2009
With the gathering together of a relatively small cast and less than half a dozen stellar film artists, D.W. has taken a simple, elemental, old-fashioned, bucolic melodrama and milked it for 12 reels of absorbing entertainment.
August 06, 2012
One of Griffith's most rousing visions of film as visual-emotional ebb and flow, connection and rupture