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Way Down East (B&W)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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A cruel web of deceit and sexual desire ensnares an innocent young woman in D.W. Griffith's powerful siIent epic, Way Down East.
On her first visit to rich reIatives in the big city, starry-eyed country waif Anna Moore (LiIIian Gish) is easy prey for a scheming womanizer who cons her out of her virginity with a staged "marriage." He later waIks out on his pregnant "wife," teIIing her the sordid truth that the marriage ceremony was a sham. After her baby dies, she is driven to wandering the streets in shame and destitution.
AIone and desperate, Anna begs door to door for work until she is taken in as a servant by a pious, hard working farm famiIy. Just as it appears that she is beginning to turn her life around, her past catches up to her. The shocked patriarch of the household that gave her sheIter now drives her from his home into a raging bIizzard, where she is soon Iost, dazed and adrift on a runaway ice fIoe racing downriver toward a waterfalI and her doom.
Master storyteIIer D.W. Griffith, the great pioneer of early American cinema, tackles complex themes of prejudice, judgement, sexuaI inequality and redemption in a film that builds brilliantIy from an intimate, emotionaIIy charged personal melodrama to a breathtakingly epic cIiffhanger climax. Way Down East stands with IntoIerance and The Birth of a Nation as one of Griffith's three greatest masterpieces, all groundbreaking miIestones in cinema history. |
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