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The Outer Edge (1915)

The Outer Edge poster
Directed by
E. H. Calvert
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
20 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A doctor loses everything to his drug addiction. When he tries to kill himself, he finds a starving woman and child and sells his gun to feed them, which changes his outlook and starts him on a difficult road to recovery with the help of an old nurse friend.

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