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Way down east : a simple story of a plain people / under the personal direction of D.W. Griffith ; screenplay by Anthony Paul Kelly.
LIBRA DVD 011 971
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Parker, Lottie Blair. Way down east, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Parker, Lottie Blair--Film adaptations.
- Parker, Lottie Blair.
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Silent films.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (146 min.) : silent, color tinted ; 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Title on container: David Wark Griffith presents Way Down East
- Place of Publication:
- Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, [1998]
- Language Note:
- English intertitles.
- System Details:
- DVD; Dolby digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Melodrama about a young woman who is lured into a fake marriage, becomes pregnant and is abandoned. She moves to a small town and falls in love with a wealthy but humble man, but cannot escape her scandalous past.
- Participant:
- Lillian Gish, Richard Bathelmess, Lowell Sherman.
- Credits:
- Cinematography, G.W. Bitzer and Hendrick Sartov; original musical score, Louis Silvers.
- Notes:
- Silent film with musical accompaniment "performed by full orchestra and recorded on Vitaphone discs in 1928." -- Container.
- Based on the play by Lottie Blair Parker, as adapted by William A. Brady and Joseph R. Grismer.
- Some credits from disc container.
- Videodisc release of the silent motion picture produced in 1920.
- OCLC:
- 148824142
- Publisher Number:
- 014381467727
- ID4677DSDVD Image Entertainment
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