Way Down East (1935)
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This tragic melodrama is a remake of Griffith's 1920 film, Way Down East. The story centers upon a starving, impoverished gamin who lost everything after a wicked millionaire tricked her into a marriage and impregnated her. The baby doesn't survive the ordeal and the poor girl ends up sheltered by a puritanical farm family. While there, she falls in love with the son. Unfortunately, as soon as they learn of her checkered past, the woman is tossed out. The distraught young woman is trying to cross a frozen river when a sudden thaw strikes, stranding her upon the treacherous floes. As they drift inexorably towards a deadly waterfall, her lover tries to save her. Unfortunately he cannot, and as the film ends, she is seen tumbling over the falls to certain doom. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Rochelle Hudson - Anna Moore
- George "Slim" Summerville - Constable Seth Holcomb
- Margaret Hamilton - Martha Perkins
- Russell Simpson - Squire Bartlett
- Astrid Allwyn - Kate
- Al Lydell - Hank Woolwine
- Clem Bevans - Doc Wiggin
- William Benedict - Amos
- Ann Doran - Hired Girl
- Lucille Ward
- Claire Whitney - Women for Quilting Party
- Florence Gill
- Henry Fonda - David Bartlett
- Edward Trevor - Lennox Sanderson
- Andy Devine - Hi Holler
- Spring Byington - Mrs. Bartlett
- Sara Haden - Cordelia Peabody
- Harry C. Bradley - Mr. Peabody
- Vera Lewis - Mrs. Poole
- Bill Borzage - Musician
- Brenda Fowler
- Louis King - Minister
- Kay Hammond - Mrs. Stackpole
- Nora Cecil - Woman
- Director(s):
- Henry King
- Writer(s):
- Howard Estabrook, William Hurlbut
- Producer(s):
- Winfield R. Sheehan
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