Way Down East
December 31, 2008Way Down East: A Simple Story of Plain People
Call Number: VHS00655 Copy 1
VHS00655 Copy 2
VHS00655 Copy 3
by D W Griffith; Lillian Gish; Richard Barthelmess; Lowell Sherman; Lottie Blair Parker; Joseph Rhode Grismer
Format: VHS
Language: English
Publisher: Copy 1: Burbank, CA : Viking Video Classics, ©1986.; Copy 2 New York : Kino International Corp., [1992], ©1920. Copy 3: Nutley, N.J. : Griggs-Moviedrome, 198-?
Notes: Originally released in 1920 (Copy 1: 110 mins.; Copy 2: 149 mins.; Copy 3: 108 mins.); Based on the novel and William A. Brady’s play by Lottie Blair Parker; both editions are tinted;
Summary: A young orphan girl is seduced and has a baby which dies. She is taken on as a servant by a farming family, but when her guilty past is revealed the farmer turns her out of the house into the wintry countryside. The girl almost drowns, but is rescued by the farmer’s son who marries her.
OCLC #: Copy 1: 16396157; Copy 2: 28522982; Copy 3: 21062557
Added: December 31, 2008
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
