Dir. D.W. Griffith (1920). Someone once compared D.W. Griffith’s 1920 resurrection of a shameless old Victorian melodrama as a symphony fashioned from the “The Old Oaken Bucket”—and the analogy gives ...
In 1919 and 1920, in the midst of an epochal boom of urbanization, D. W. Griffith filmed “Way Down East,” a pastoral melodrama set in a nostalgic small-town and rural America, which I discuss in the ...