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The Price of a Gift (1914)

The Price of a Gift poster
Directed by
Warwick Buckland
Genre
silent film
Country
United Kingdom
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man whose wife is an alcoholic steals from his office to feed his hungry child. The film shows the hard choices he makes.

black-and-whitesilentmelodramatictensesadgrittyslow-pacedmoralistic

What happens

The Price of a Gift è un cortometraggio muto del 1914 diretto da Warwick Buckland. Il marito di un'ubriacona ruba nel suo ufficio per poter nutrire il suo bambino che ha fame. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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