Way Down East (1935)
- Starring:
- Rochelle Hudson, Henry Fonda, (more)
- Director(s):
- Henry King
Synopsis of Way Down East
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, Rovi
Complete Cast of Way Down East
- 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
- Nora Cecil - Woman
- Louis King - Minister
- Kay Hammond - Mrs. Stackpole
- Brenda Fowler
- 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
- Claire Whitney - Women for Quilting Party
- Lucille Ward
- Ann Doran - Hired Girl
- Florence Gill
- Director(s):
- Henry King
- Writer(s):
- William Hurlbut, Howard Estabrook
- Producer(s):
- Winfield R. Sheehan
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