Way Down East 1920 123movies

Watch: Way Down East 1920 123movies, Full Movie Online – The callous rich, portrayed by Lennox, think only of their own pleasure. Anna is but a poor country girl whom Lennox tricks into a fake wedding. She believes that it is true, but secret, while he has his way with her. When she is pregnant, he leaves her and she must have the baby, named Trust Lennox, on her own. When the baby dies she wanders until she gets a job with Squire Bartlett. David falls for her, but she rejects him due to her past and then Lennox shows up lusting for Kate. Seeing Anna, he tries to get her to leave, but she doesn’t, and she tells no one about his past. When Squire Bartlett learns of her past from Martha, the town gossip, he tosses Anna out in a snow storm. But before she goes, she fingers the respected Lennox, as the father of her dead baby and the spoiler of herself..
Plot: A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
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Flashes of Brilliance
Despite the major box-office success of “Way Down East”, Griffith, reportedly, continued to have financial difficulties. His lack of sound money management is probably the major reason for his eventual failure in the movie industry he helped create, and it likely is much of the cause of his artistic decline, as well, which I think was beginning around this time. “The Birth of a Nation” and “Intolerance” revolutionized motion pictures severalfold–an enormous peak for a career, doubtless, but henceforth he made some lousy, derivative and prosaic films–only flashes of brilliance, like those in this film, make the remainder of his filmography worth investigating.

The $182,000 he paid for the rights to Brady, Parker and Grismer’s horse-and-buggy play seemed absurd, and the melodrama itself is overly sensational and ridiculous; yet, it’s impressive how Griffith’s inspired direction and Lillian Gish’s performance somehow manage to make that not always seem the case. Many problems remain in the film. The message of monogamy (regardless of one’s standpoint on the issue), the staginess and especially the comic relief add to the already inherent disadvantages of the genre. The comic relief is unnecessary, ill placed and unfunny; it undermines much of the picture, which is overlong as a result.

As for Gish, this has to be some of her best acting. Aside from the competent and (this time) careful film-making, she is the saving grace of the picture. She is pitiful and beautiful–composing Griffith’s ideal woman. She rises above the story-lines that require her to faint four times.

There’s a particularly picturesque scene where Richard Berthelmess’s character first admits his attraction to Gish. And, I always like when Griffith rallies against busybody gossipers. The most acclaimed sequence, however, is, of course, the film’s climax, including the great ice-break scene, which has Richard Barthelmess saving Gish from death (thankfully not rape this time). It is an exceptionally well-edited and photographed dénouement–one of the more memorable and exciting moments in film history. Too bad it and the other virtues of “Way Down East” lie beside their conversely negative parts.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 25 min (145 min), 2 hr 45 min (165 min) (Spain), 1 hr 47 min (107 min) (1931 re-release) (USA), 2 hr 6 min (126 min) (Alpha Video)
Budget 0
Revenue 4500000
Status Released
Rated Passed
Genre Drama, Romance
Director D.W. Griffith
Writer Lottie Blair Parker, William A. Brady, Joseph R. Grismer
Actors Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Mrs. David Landau
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Silent
Aspect Ratio 1.33 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length (13 reels) (USA)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm