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UNITED STATES · 1920
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Synopsis
Wealthy cripple Markley finances the education of blacksmith's daughter Ruth. When she returns to their small town he asks to marry her, but she runs off with city worker Jim Dirk who is then killed in a subway accident. Markley offers to marry her in name only to protect her new son.
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class difference · sacrifice and redemption · unmarried motherhood · disability · social protection
