United Artists
Directed by William Beaudine
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Dickensian tale of Mary Pickford and a group of orphans trapped at a "baby farm" in the swamp. Grimes is the low-life redneck who keeps them prisoner. Grimes gets involved in a kidnapping scheme, sending yet another kid to the farm. Pickford finally decides to escape and sets out across the swamp, kids in tow. They overcome alligators and bogs to reach safety. The kids are cute, a little too cute, their clever southern drawls coming across as fake even in inter titles. Biblical references are pervasive, there is even a scene with Jesus in a pasture coming to take a dying baby. The happy ending is as predictable as it is contrived.
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