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Saved From Himself
UNITED STATES · 1911

Saved From Himself

D.W. Griffith
stock market speculation financial ruin moral temptation redemption crime and consequence
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Synopsis

Joseph Graybill, learning that his friends have been making a lot of money in the stock market, takes a flyer himself. However, when a drop in the shares he has bought wipes him out, he breaks into his employer's safe for money to pay for a margin call. Will the thought of his grey-haired mother and the importunities of his co-worker Mabel Normand stop him or will he descend to a life of crime?

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