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A Child for Sale

1920 · 60 min

A somber silent melodrama that wrings quiet tension from a desperate moral choice, with earnest performances and a twisty, coincidence-laden plot.

Directed by
Ivan Abramson
Genres
Drama
Starring
Creighton Hale, Gladys Leslie, Bobby Connelly
Overview
Charles Stoddard is a poor artist living with his wife and two children in Greenwich Village. Destitute after his wife dies, he is forced to sell one of his children to a childless rich woman. He soon comes his senses however, and tries to back out of the deal.

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Directed by
Ivan Abramson
Genres
Drama
Starring
Creighton Hale, Gladys Leslie, Bobby Connelly
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • parenthood
  • family
  • politics
  • class
  • guilt
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour1
Realism6
Romance2
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Ivan Abramson
Written by
Ivan Abramson
Starring
Creighton Hale, Gladys Leslie, Bobby Connelly, Julia Swayne Gordon, Anna Lehr, Ruth Sullivan
Runtime
60 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
No Language

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