Way Down East
1920 · directed by D.W. Griffith
- Rating
- 81/100
- Hit
- yes
A naïve 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.
Way Down East (1920), directed by D.W. Griffith, rates 81/100 — a hit. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.
Cast
- Lillian Gish
- Richard Barthelmess
- Lowell Sherman
- Burr McIntosh
- Kate Bruce
- Mrs. David Landau
- Josephine Bernard
- Mrs. Morgan Belmont
- Patricia Fruen
- Florence Short
Crew
- Billy Bitzer — Director of Photography
- Charles Downs — Director of Photography
- Hendrik Sartov — Director of Photography
- Paul H. Allen — Director of Photography
- James Smith — Editor
- Rose Smith — Editor
- Louis Silvers — Original Music Composer
- William Frederick Peters — Original Music Composer
- Anthony Paul Kelly — Writer
- D.W. Griffith — Writer
More from D.W. Griffith
- Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) — 84/100 · hit
- The Birth of a Nation (1915) — 81/100 · hit
- Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919) — 80/100 · hit
- Orphans of the Storm (1921) — 78/100
- True Heart Susie (1919) — 70/100
- The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) — 64/100 · short, not counted
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