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Sparrows (1926)

Sparrows poster
Directed by
Tom McNamara, William Beaudine, Carl Harbaugh, Earle Brown
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 24m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 43 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman finds a baby that has been taken by kidnappers and decides to protect it. She must find a way to keep the child safe and return it to its family.

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What happens

Sparrows is a 1926 American silent drama film about a young woman who rescues a baby from kidnappers. The film, which was originally titled Scraps, starred and was produced by Mary Pickford, who was the most powerful woman in Hollywood at the time. In 2025, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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