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Way Down East (1935 film)

Way Down East
Directed by Henry King
Produced by Winfield Sheehan
Written by Henry Johnson
Patterson McNutt
Screenplay by Howard Estabrook
William Hurlbut
Based on Annie Laurie
1897 play
by Lottie Blair Parker
Starring Rochelle Hudson
Henry Fonda
Music by Oscar Bradley
Cinematography Ernest Palmer
Edited by Robert Bischoff
Production
company
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date
  • October 16, 1935 (1935-10-16) (United States)
Running time
80 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Way Down East is a 1935 romantic drama film directed by Henry King, starring Rochelle Hudson and Henry Fonda, featuring Slim Summerville, Margaret Hamilton, Andy Devine and Spring Byington, released by 20th Century Fox and produced by Fox Film.

The picture is a remake of the classic 1920 D. W. Griffith silent film Way Down East starring Lillian Gish, which in turn was based on the 1897 stage play by Lottie Blair Parker.

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.


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