Way Down East is a 1920 American silent melodrama directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish as a young woman deceived into a sham marriage and cast out by rural New England society after bearing a child out of wedlock. The film is best remembered for its climactic rescue sequence, in which Gish's character is saved from drowning on a breaking ice floe heading toward a waterfall, filmed under genuinely hazardous winter conditions. Way Down East was one of the biggest box-office successes of its era and is widely regarded as a landmark of Griffith's melodramatic style and of technically ambitious silent-era location filmmaking.
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Way Down East is a 1920 American silent melodrama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish.
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Way Down East is a 1920 American silent melodrama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. It is one of four film adaptations of the 19th century play of the same name by Lottie Blair Parker. There were two earlier silent
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Way Down East is a 1920 American silent melodrama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish.
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