Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Romance
Release Year: 1920
Country: USA
Runtime: 145
Rating: 4.1 (0)
Languages: English
Director: D.W. Griffith
Sound: Silent
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Writing by: William A. Brady - play (as Wm. A. Brady)
D.W. Griffith - uncredited
Joseph R. Grismer - play "Way Down East" (as Jos. R. Grismer)
Anthony Paul Kelly - scenario
Lottie Blair Parker - play "Annie Laurie"

Produced by: D.W. Griffith - producer (uncredited)

Cast: Lillian Gish - Anna Moore
Richard Barthelmess - David Bartlett
Lowell Sherman - Lennox Sanderson
Burr McIntosh - Squire Bartlett
Kate Bruce - Mother Bartlett
Mary Hay - Kate (the Squires niece)
Creighton Hale - The Professor
Emily Fitzroy - Maria Poole (landlady)
Porter Strong - Seth Holcomb
George Neville - The Constable
Edgar Nelson - Hi Holler

Music: Louis Silvers
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Plot Outline: 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.
Plot: 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 doesnt, 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.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The credits are superimposed over the infamous German woodcuts depicting the crimes of the historical Voivode Vlad Dracula.

Goofs: We know about 6 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: When Renfield grabs the bars of his padded cell we can see that they wobble and are clearly made of rubber.

Trivia: There are 8 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Norma Shearer has a bit part in one scene. Shearers mother and sister are extras as well, as is another future luminary of the talkies, Una Merkel.
• The waterfall seen in long shot at the climax is Niagara Falls, a site unrelated to, and far from, where the ice floe rescue scenes were shot.
• The ice floes seen at the climax drifting above and going over the waterfall were actually wood constructions, as the scene was shot out of season. The waterfall itself was only a few feet high, going no further down than what is seen at the bottom of the film frame.






































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