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The Foundling (1915)

The Foundling poster
Directed by
John B. O'Brien, Allan Dwan
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
50 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This silent film is about a young child who is abandoned and later taken in by a new family. The story follows the child's life and the relationships that form.

old-fashioneddramaticsentimentalslow-pacedmelodramaticnostalgic

What happens

The Foundling is a 1915 silent film directed by Alan Dwan. The film premiered in 1915, was lost in a fire accident shortly afterwards, and is now a lost film. It was remade as The Foundling in 1916 with the same principal cast, but with a different director, John B. O'Brien, at the helm. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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