Way Down East (1920)




Richard Barthelmess, Lillian Gish - Way Down East




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.


Vintage magazines

Mon Ciné 1 1922
Mon Ciné 7 1922

Books with substantial mentioning of Way Down East

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

John Dileo
100 Great Film Performances You Should Remember - but probably don't
New York, 2002

Robert K. Klepper
Silent Films, 1877-1996, A Critical Guide to 646 Movies
Jefferson, North Carolina and London, 1999

Bert Cardullo
Indelible Images, New Perspectives on Classic Films
Lanham - New York - London, 1987

Jerry Vermilye
The Films of the Twenties
Secaucus, NJ, 1985

Stanley Hochman (editor)
From Quasimodo to Scarlett O'Hara, A National Board of Review Anthology 1920 - 1940
New York, 1982

Books with an entry on Way Down East

Robert B. Connelly
The Motion Picture Guide, Silent Film 1910-1936
Chicago, 1986