Way down East : a simple story of plain people

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Label

Way down East : a simple story of plain people

Title remainder

a simple story of plain people

Statement of responsibility

[D.W. Griffith] ; scenario by Anthony Paul Kelly ; under the personal direction of D.W. Griffith ; Film Preservation Associates ; produced for DVD by David Shepard

Title variation

• Simple story of plain people
• David Wark Griffith presents Way down East

Creator

• Way down east (Motion picture)

Contributor

• D.W. Griffith, Inc
• Film Preservation Associates
• Image Entertainment (Firm)
• Barthelmess, Richard, 1895-1963
• Bitzer, G. W., 1872-1944
• Brady, William A., 1863-1950
• Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993
• Griffith, D. W., (David Wark), 1875-1948
• Grismer, Joseph Rhode, 1849-1922
• Kelly, Anthony P., (Anthony Paul), 1897-1932
• Parker, Lottie Blair
• Sartov, Henrik
• Shepard, David
• Sherman, Lowell, 1888-1934
• Silvers, Louis, 1889-1954
• Smith, James, 1892-1975
• Smith, Rose, 1897-1962
• Blackhawk Films

Subject

• Feature films
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations
• Film adaptations
• Man-woman relationships
• Drama
• New England
• Romance films
• Silent films
• Silent films
• Silent films
• Silent films
• Silent films
• Women
• Women -- Conduct of life
• Women -- Conduct of life -- Drama
• Women -- New England -- Drama
• Man-woman relationships -- Drama

Genre

• Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations
• Romance films
• Silent films

Language

eng

Summary

Impoverished Anna Moore lives in a New England village with her elderly mother. Anna sets out to petition her wealthy city-dwelling Aunt Emma for help. At Aunt Emma's Anna meets rich, idle, womanizer Lennox Sanderson, who uses a mock marriage to compel her surrender to his seduction. When Anna announces that she is pregnant, the cad reveals the truth then deserts her. Anna's baby dies, her mother passes away. Abandoned and orphaned she finds refuge working on the Bartlett farm--a shamed woman who only wishes to keep her secret. David Bartlett has fallen in love with the gentle servant girl, however, and refuses to let the Puritanical justifications of a stuffy and unfeeling society alter his feelings

Member of

• Blackhawk Films collection

Cataloging source

IAM

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Produced by D.W. Griffith [for] D.W. Griffith Productions ; cinematography, G.W. Bitzer, Charles Downs, Hendrik Sartov ; editing, James Smith, Rose Smith; original music, Louis Silvers, recorded in 1928

Dewey number

791.4372

Intended audience

MPAA Rating: Not rated

Language note

Silent with English intertitles, accompanied by Louis Silvers original orchestral score as recorded for Vitaphone in 1928

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.W397 1998

PerformerNote

Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Lowell Sherman, Burr McIntosh, Kate Bruce, Mary Hay, Creighton Hale, Emily Fitzroy, Porter Strong, George Neville, Edgar Nelson

Runtime

145

Series statement

Blackhawk Films collection

Target audience

general

Technique

live action