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To Save Her Soul
UNITED STATES · 1909

To Save Her Soul

D.W. Griffith
religious conflict urban corruption unrequited love ambition vs tradition moral redemption
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Synopsis

Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job. Over the objections of the curate who loves her, she accepts the offer and goes to the city. Later the curate goes to hear Agnes perform and, fearing that her soul is being corrupted by show business, he asks her to return to the small town with him. When she refuses, he is prepared

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