UNITED STATES · 1910

A Child’s Faith

D.W. Griffith
Classical Hollywood class conflict family estrangement illness and hardship redemption parental disapproval
Synopsis

A loving father favors a prosperous young man as his daughter’s suitor but disowns her when she chooses a working-class man. Years later, the husband struggles against the ravages of tuberculosis to support his wife and daughter. The heroine’s father has become a miser, and around the time of the husband’s death he unwittingly moves into a cheap flat directly above that of his widowed daughter and

Year1910
CountryUnited States
DirectorD.W. Griffith
A Child’s Faith

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