Way Down East

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drama film feature film silent film

Way Down East is a 1920 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, renowned for its emotional storytelling and groundbreaking ice floe rescue sequence.

Aliases (1)

Way Down East (1897 play) ×1

Statements (54)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	drama film → feature film → silent film →
basedOn	Way Down East (1897 play) →
basedOnAuthor	Lottie Blair Parker →
cinematographyBy	Billy Bitzer →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
director	D. W. Griffith →
distributor	United Artists →
editedBy	James Smith →
filmFormat	black-and-white → silent with English intertitles →
filmingLocation	Mamaroneck, New York NERFINISHED → White River, Vermont →
hasCharacter	Anna Moore → David Bartlett → Lennox Sanderson → Mrs. Bartlett → Squire Bartlett →
hasGenre	drama → romantic drama →
musicBy	Louis Silvers →
notableFor	emotional melodramatic storytelling → ice floe rescue sequence →
originalLanguage	Silent film →
partOf	American silent cinema canon →
productionCompany	D.W. Griffith Productions →
releaseDate	1920-09-03 →
releaseYear	1920 →
runningTime	145 minutes →
setInPeriod	19th century →
stars	Burr McIntosh → Charles Eye → Creston Clarke → Edgar Nelson → Edith Haldeman → Edith Maxwell → Emily Fitzroy → Florence Short → Frank Cooley → George Irving → George Neville → James Kirkwood → Josephine Bernard → Josephine Crowell → Kate Bruce → Kate Toncray → Lillian Gish → Lowell Sherman → Mary Hay → Patricia Fruen → Porter Strong → Richard Barthelmess → Vivia Ogden →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Way Down East ("Way Down East (1897 play)") →	basedOn
D. W. Griffith →	notableWork