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Way Down East
The movie is about Anna, who was deceived at a fake wedding by the rich man - Lennox. Lennox is a womanizer who leaves her when she becomes pregnant. Anna begins to lose everything, as she tries to rebuild her life again.
Actors:
Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Mrs. David Landau, Lowell Sherman, Burr McIntosh, Josephine Bernard, Mrs. Morgan Belmont, Patricia Fruen, Florence Short, Kate Bruce, Vivia Ogden, ...»
Director:
D.W. Griffith
Country:
United States
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#D.W. Griffith #D.W. Griffith Productions #Lillian Gish #Mrs. David Landau #Richard Barthelmess #Way Down East
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Critics Of "Way Down East"
TV Guide
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.
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Combustible Celluloid
January 07, 2012 This is melodramatic soap opera at its most blatant and at its very best.
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Time Out
January 26, 2006 [Lillian Gish's] virtuoso performance makes the heroine's growth from gullible innocence to bitter experience credible.
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Film4
August 19, 2013 Spectacular to look at, emotionally engaging and with a conclusion that still sends a shiver down the spine.
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Radio Times
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.
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Filmcritic.com
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.
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Washington Post
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.
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Variety
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.
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Chicago Reader
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.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
May 27, 2007 Old-fashioned bucolic soap opera doesn't translate well to modern-times.
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CinePassion
August 06, 2012 One of Griffith's most rousing visions of film as visual-emotional ebb and flow, connection and rupture
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Annabelle: Creation
IMDb: 7
2017
109 min
Country: United States
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Twelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into ...