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The Man and the Woman
UNITED STATES · 1908

The Man and the Woman

D.W. Griffith
brotherly contrast moral redemption absence of parental guidance class and virtue corruption and influence
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Synopsis

John and Tom Wilkins are brothers and most divergent in natures. John is a clergyman and a noble, upright fellow, while Tom is a scapegrace, wild, reckless and unscrupulous. Not having the parental guidance so essential in youth, his father being dead and his mother blind, he drifted into bad company, the contaminating influence deeply affecting his susceptible nature.

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