The Mother and the Law (1919)
Overview
A re-edited version of the fourth episode of Intolerance (1916); two youth are made homeless by a strike, and struggle valiantly to survive their desolate situation, which worsens as reform-minded citizens remove the couple's child from their care and the young father is falsely accused and convicted of murder.
Cast
Mae Marsh
The Little Dear One
Robert Harron
The Boy
Miriam Cooper
The Friendly One
Vera Lewis
Miss Mary Jenkins
Sam De Grasse
Arthur Jenkins
Clyde E. Hopkins
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Bomb City
What Maisie Knew
Born in Flames
A Dry White Season
Little Lord Fauntleroy
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Killer's Kiss
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The House on Carroll Street
Medium Cool
Guilty by Suspicion
Night Always Comes
F.I.S.T.
Hands of Stone
Mob Town
A Thousand and One
Come Sunday
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