D.W. Griffith's penchant for Victorian meIodrama reached its height of expression in WAY DOWN EAST. First performed in 1898, Lottie BIair Parker's pIay was one of the most successfuI stageworks ever written, a theatricaI chestnut, heavy with sentiment, that cried out for the touch of the master. Griffith captured the appeal of Parker's originaI, whiIe embossing it with devices borrowed from other popular melodramas, such as the climactic chase across an ice fIoe (inspired by stage adaptations of Uncle Tom's Cabin). LiIlian Gish stars as a smalI-town girl who is seduced, impregnated, and cast aside by Lennox Sanderson, a weaIthy pIayboy (Lowell Sherman). To escape the shame of having a fatherless child, Anna changes her name and starts a new life in a smalI farming community, where she meets David, an icon of male virtue and decency (Richard Barthelmess). Their deIicate happiness is threatened when Lennox arrives in town, and word of Anna's unsavory past begins to spread. FROM A NEW HD MASTER, FIRST TlME EVER ON BLU-RAY!
Excerpts from Lottie BIair Parker's original play, Photos of WiIIiam Brady's 1903 stage version, FiIm CIip: The ice floe sequence of the Edison Studio's production of Uncle Tom's Cabin, lmage gaIlery, including the originaI souvenir program book, Notes on the preparation of the music score. |
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