Adrift in a Great City (1914)

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A poor immigrant family is separated when the father is injured before meeting his wife and daughter. The daughter goes blind after working in a sweatshop, and she and her mother become beggars. The girl is eventually reunited with her father by chance at a hospital, where a doctor says her eyes can be fixed.

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What happens

Adrift in a Great City is a 1914 American silent short drama produced by the Thanhouser Film Corporation that stars Florence LaBadie. The film begins with Pat Moran who pays for the passage of his wife and daughter to join him in America, but he is seriously injured on the way to greeting them. Left by themselves, the daughter works in a sweatshop and goes blind, forcing her and her mother to become beggars. By pure happenstance, the blind girl wanders to the hospital where her father is recovering and tells her story to a doctor. The father recognizes the girl as his daughter and the family is reunited, and the doctor confirms her blindness can be cured. The film was reviewed negatively by critics for its poor scenario, settings and technical execution. The film is presumed lost. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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