Film · United Artists · 1920
Pass it on
Way Down East
49Watch it awake.
Gish on the ice is what they kept, and a false marriage is what put her there.
The review
Griffith's roadshow, rental often printed near 4 to 5 million, is Lillian Gish and a bad promise. A woman is tricked into a false marriage. The baby dies. I won't linger on the child. A pious household casts her out. She ends on an ice floe. A house can watch it. The seducer is the villain, which the picture does bother to say.
The ice is the finish the country remembered, and the memory got picky. People keep the floe and drop the trick that started it. The piety in that house is what casts her out. If we put it on, I'll name the liar and the household before anyone talks about the ice as if the cold were the whole wrong.
Journal
Keep Way Down East in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 49. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Piety and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Secondhand Lions
61 instead of 49
Secondhand Lions is still a drama film, and it scores 61 instead of 49. What you gain is stewardship: The speech is the part to memorize, if you mean to live it.
The eight
- 2Industry
No job in the story matters beside the false marriage and the exile.
- 5Household
A false marriage, a baby who dies, and a pious house that casts her out.
- 3Piety
The pious household is the one that casts the wronged woman out.
- 7Courage
Cast out, she ends on the ice floe the country remembered as the finish.
- 5Republic
A pious household casts her out rather than keep her among them.
- 6Temperance
The seducer is named the villain; the film does not ask you to admire him.
- 8Truth
A false marriage is a lie, and the exile is the bill that follows it.
- 3Stewardship
What the country kept is the ice, not a home repaired for the woman.
Where to watch
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