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Way Down East (1920)

Name: Way Down East
Genre: Classic Drama
Released: 1920
Duration: 2 h 24 min
Cast: Norma Shearer, Lillian Gish, Una Merkel, Richard Barthelmess, Carol Dempster

1920145 minClassic Drama✓ Verified rightsSilent · CC0 piano score

Way Down East (1920) is a 145-minute classic film that airs free on Starlite TV's Silent Pictures (CH 12) channel. It is a silent film, presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score. It is in the U.S. public domain. Directed by D. W. Griffith.

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About Way Down East (1920)

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.

Anna is a poor country girl who is tricked by handsome man-about-town Lennox into a fake wedding. When she becomes pregnant, he reveals the truth of their relationship and leaves her. She has the baby, named Trust Lennox, on her own in a boarding house. When the baby dies she wanders until she gets a job with Squire Bartlett. Despite being unofficially engaged, David, Squire Bartlett's son, falls for her, but she rejects him due to her torrid past.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Way Down East (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: D. W. Griffith
Cast includes: Norma Shearer, Lillian Gish, Una Merkel, Richard Barthelmess, Carol Dempster, Creighton Hale, Emily Fitzroy, Lowell Sherman
Country: United States
Based on: Way Down East

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Airs on

Silent Pictures - CH 12, Silent Film TV

Rights & source

Basis: Published before 1931 - U.S. copyright term expired
Evidence: First published 1920 (before 1931): US copyright term has expired.
Music: Silent film: this copy has an added soundtrack of unknown origin, so original audio is MUTED and a CC0 (Musopen) piano bed is played instead.
Underlying rights: Silent.
Source: Internet Archive

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