Way Down East (1935 film)
1935 film by Henry King
- October 16, 1935 (1935-10-16)
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Way Down East is a 1935 American romantic drama film directed by Henry King and starring Rochelle Hudson, Henry Fonda, Slim Summerville, Margaret Hamilton, Andy Devine and Spring Byington. It was released by 20th Century Fox and produced by Fox Film Corporation.
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.
Plot
A starving, impoverished gamin has lost everything after a wicked millionaire tricked her into a marriage and impregnated her. The baby does not survive the ordeal, and the poor girl ends up sheltered by a puritanical farm family. While there, she falls in love with the son.[1]
Cast
- Rochelle Hudson as Anna Moore
- Henry Fonda as David Bartlett
- Slim Summerville as Constable Seth Holcomb
- Edward Trevor as Lennox Sanderson
- Margaret Hamilton as Martha Perkins
- Russell Simpson as Squire Amasa Bartlett
- Andy Devine as Hi Holler
- Spring Byington as Mrs. Louisa Bartlett
- Astrid Allwyn as Kate
- Sara Haden as Cordelia Peabody
- Al Lydell as Hank Woolwine
- Harry C. Bradley as Mr. Peabody
- Phil La Toska as Abner
- Clem Bevans as Doc Wiggin
- Kay Hammond as Mrs. Emma Stackpole
- Tom London as Choir Singer (uncredited)
References
- ^ "Way Down East (1935) - Henry King | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie".
External links
- Way Down East in the Internet Movie Database
- Way Down East at AllMovie
- Way Down East at the TCM Movie Database
- Way Down East at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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Films directed by Henry King
- Should a Wife Forgive? (1915)
- Joy and the Dragon (1916)
- Little Mary Sunshine (1916)
- Pay Dirt (1916)
- Shadows and Sunshine (1916)
- The Climber (1917)
- The Mate of the Sally Ann (1917)
- Twin Kiddies (1917)
- Told at Twilight (1917)
- Vengeance of the Dead (1917)
- Souls in Pawn (1917)
- Sunshine and Gold (1917)
- The Bride's Silence (1917)
- A Game of Wits (1917)
- Southern Pride (1917)
- All the World to Nothing (1918)
- Beauty and the Rogue (1918)
- Powers That Prey (1918)
- Hearts or Diamonds? (1918)
- Up Romance Road (1918)
- The Locked Heart (1918)
- Hobbs in a Hurry (1918)
- Social Briars (1918)
- Where the West Begins (1919)
- Brass Buttons (1919)
- Some Liar (1919)
- Six Feet Four (1919)
- A Sporting Chance (1919)
- This Hero Stuff (1919)
- 23 1/2 Hours' Leave (1919)
- A Fugitive from Matrimony (1919)
- Haunting Shadows (1919)
- When a Man Rides Alone (1919)
- The White Dove (1920)
- Uncharted Channels (1920)
- One Hour Before Dawn (1920)
- Help Wanted – Male (1920)
- Dice of Destiny (1920)
- The Mistress of Shenstone (1921)
- When We Were 21 (1921)
- The Sting of the Lash (1921)
- Salvage (1921)
- Tol'able David (1921)
- The Bond Boy (1922)
- The Seventh Day (1922)
- Sonny (1922)
- Fury (1923)
- The White Sister (1923)
- Romola (1924)
- Sackcloth and Scarlet (1925)
- Any Woman (1925)
- Stella Dallas (1925)
- The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926)
- Partners Again (1926)
- The Magic Flame (1927)
- The Woman Disputed (1928)
- She Goes to War (1929)
- Hell Harbor (1930)
- The Eyes of the World (1930)
- Lightnin' (1930)
- Merely Mary Ann (1931)
- Over the Hill (1931)
- The Woman in Room 13 (1932)
- State Fair (1933)
- I Loved You Wednesday (1933)
- Carolina (1934)
- Marie Galante (1934)
- One More Spring (1935)
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- Ramona (1936)
- Lloyd's of London (1936)
- Seventh Heaven (1937)
- In Old Chicago (1938)
- Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
- Jesse James (1939)
- Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
- Little Old New York (1940)
- Maryland (1940)
- Chad Hanna (1940)
- A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)
- Remember the Day (1941)
- The Black Swan (1942)
- The Song of Bernadette (1943)
- Wilson (1944)
- A Bell for Adano (1945)
- Margie (1946)
- Captain from Castile (1947)
- Deep Waters (1948)
- Prince of Foxes (1948)
- Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
- The Gunfighter (1950)
- I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951)
- David and Bathsheba (1951)
- Wait till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952)
- O. Henry's Full House (1952)
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
- King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)
- Untamed (1955)
- Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
- Carousel (1956)
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- The Bravados (1958)
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