Way Down East (1920)

Director
D.W. Griffith

Main cast
Lillian Gish; Richard Barthelmess; Lowell Sherman; Burr McIntosh; Kate Bruce

Genres
Drama, Action, Romance

Description
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.


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