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.
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.
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.
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