UNITED STATES · 1910
The Purgation
Classical Hollywood
redemption
love at first sight
criminal reform
class mobility
moral transformation
Synopsis
Two burglars break into an apartment to rob it. One look at the sleeping daughter of the house, and one of the burglars is so smitten that he forces his companion from the apartment at gunpoint, and resolves to go straight. Later, rescuing the girl from an attack, the boy is welcomed into the family’s home. He goes to work for the father’s company and becomes engaged to the girl. The boy’s former
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