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2022150 minGdocumentary

Historical Events Literature Writing

Way Down East

2022150 minGdocumentary

Lillian Gish portrays a small-town girl who, after being seduced and abandoned by wealthy playboy Lennox Sanderson, seeks redemption in a new community.

Historical Events Literature Writing

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Channel: Kino Lorber

Way Down East

2022• 150 minG

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Lillian Gish portrays a small-town girl who, after being seduced and abandoned by wealthy playboy Lennox Sanderson, seeks redemption in a new community.

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In 1920, D.W. Griffith adapted Lottie Blair Parker's successful 1898 play "Way Down East," a quintessential Victorian melodrama. Lillian Gish stars as Anna, a small-town girl who is seduced and abandoned by wealthy playboy Lennox Sanderson, portrayed by Lowell Sherman. To escape the stigma of single motherhood, Anna adopts a new identity in a rural farming community, where she finds solace with the virtuous David, played by Richard Barthelmess. Their fragile happiness is jeopardized when Lennox reappears, threatening to expose Anna's past.

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