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Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess in Way Down East (1920)

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Way Down East

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Edited into

    • "Histoire(s) du cinéma" Une histoire seule (TV Episode 1989)

Featured in

    • The Great Chase (1962)

    • The 43rd Annual Academy Awards (TV Special 1971)

    • Kisses (1976)

    • Hollywood (TV Mini Series 1980)

    • "Hollywood" Trick of the Light (TV Episode 1980)

      Ice flow scene

Referenced in

    • The Patsy (1928)

    • The Widow from Chicago (1930)

      Polly compares Dominic to 'the heavy from Way Down East.'
    • Alexander Nevsky (1938)

      The battle on the ice was inspired by this film in which the climax is a chase over a vast river of melting ice heading toward a waterfall.
    • The Little Soldier (Short 1948)

      Ice floes scene
    • Hallelujah the Hills (1963)

      Card before a sequence: 'Homage to David Wark Griffith from "Way Down East"'

Spin-off

    • A Walk in the Clouds (1995)

Spoofed in

    • Five Orphans of the Storm (Short 1923)

      Lillian Gish ice floe scene is recreated
    • Yodeling Yokels (Short 1931)

      Honey trapped on the ice floe headed towards a waterfall like Lillian Gish in the climax of Way Down East. The scene with Gish is well-known as an early example of parallel action editing technique. The pointless cutting back-and-forth between Honey on the ice floes and the mouse practicing his golf putt could be taken as a joke about this editing technique.

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    • Way Down East (1935)

      based on the same source

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