Movie
Way Down East
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1920-09-03
- Runtime
- 150 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- D.W. Griffith Productions
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Lillian Gish as Anna Moore
- Richard Barthelmess as David Bartlett
- Lowell Sherman as Lennox Sanderson
- Burr McIntosh as Squire Bartlett
- Kate Bruce as Mother Bartlett
- Mrs. David Landau as Anna Moore's Mother
- Josephine Bernard as Mrs. Emma Tremont
- Mrs. Morgan Belmont as Diana Tremont
- Patricia Fruen as Diana's Sister
- Florence Short as The Eccentric Aunt
- Vivia Ogden as Martha Perkins
- Porter Strong as Seth Holcomb
Crew
- D.W. Griffith - Director
- Anthony Paul Kelly - Writer
- D.W. Griffith - Writer
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