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Way Down East
MEANRANK
75/100
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Trakt on 66, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 96. Critics average 96, everyone else 72.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A naive young woman from a poor country family is seduced by a wealthy city man under the false promise of marriage. After he abandons her, she is left with a child and faces the harsh, unforgiving judgment of society. Alone and disgraced, she finds work as a servant at a remote farm, hiding her past. There, she captures the attention of the kind-hearted son of the household, but the constant fear of her secret being revealed hangs over her chance at happiness.
Details
- Director
- D.W. Griffith
- Writers
- Anthony Paul Kelly, D.W. Griffith
- Based on
- Way Down East by Charlotte Blair Parker
- Studio
- D.W. Griffith Productions
- Released
- 3 September 1920
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 145 min
- Rated
- NR
- Box office
- $4.5M
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