Movie
The Criminal
1916 · 55 min
A quiet, earnest silent-era drama that leans on injustice and sympathy, moving slowly toward a wronged woman's plight.
- Directed by
- Reginald Barker
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Clara Williams, William Desmond, Enid Willis
- Overview
- A young Italian immigrant girl, uneducated and superstitious, finds an abandoned baby on the stairs of her tenement, with a note attached explaining the baby is illegitimate. A young newspaper reporter, whom the girl knows from waiting on him at the restaurant where she works, reads the note for her. But the police arrest her, at no evidence whatsoever other than possession of the baby, for kidnapping.
- How it feels
- Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Isolation, class, identity, justice
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Reginald Barker
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Clara Williams, William Desmond, Enid Willis
