Directed by D.W. Griffith
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Kino)
Naive Lillian Gish travels from her poor country home to the big city to ask for money from rich relatives. Scoundrel Lowell Sherman sets his eyes on her at a party, then arranges a fake marriage, all in order to get her in bed. He convinces her to keep the "marriage" secret, which works until she reveals that she is pregnant, then abandons her and the baby. More heartache follows, and she finds herself walking lonely country roads in search of work. A simple, religious farming family takes her in as help, and for awhile it looks like her past will be forgotten. However, when a gossipy relative reveals it, she is thrown out of the house by the "Christian" father. Somehow she finds herself stranded on an ice floe and headed for certain death over a waterfall in the serial-inspired ending.
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