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What Poverty Leads To
(1908) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: (unknown)
Crescent Film Company production. / Released October 1908. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Jim’s home, Jim out of work. Child crying for something to eat. Milkman refuses to give Jim any more milk without paying for same. Jim decides to steal a bottle of milk for his child’s sake. After meeting with success, he decides to burglarize a residence, and with the proceeds keep himself and child from starving. Interior of fashionable residence, dining room. Jim is seen taking silverware from sideboard and packing same into dress suit case which he has found there. A three-year-old baby of owner of house discovers Jim at work and hides behind a chair to see what he is going to do. Jim pries open a door which leads into another room to get more plunder, when child sneaks forward and empties the silverware from the dress suit case into drawer of sideboard, and as Jim is about to return the baby substitutes himself in the dress suit case and closes the lid, just as Jim picks up same and makes his departure. Jim returns home and opens suit ease, when he is astonished to see baby with revolver pointed at him. Jim is a nonprofessional burglar, and immediately cowers down and starts to retreat. An idea strikes him. He gives baby a toy in exchange for the revolver. When Jim realizes his mistake, he immediately returns the baby to its proper home. The father of the stolen child is looking all over for his child and has almost given up hope and is heartbroken when Jim returns with the baby. The father at first is very angry with Jim, but the baby explains to him the pathetic condition of Jim’s home. The father is touched to his heart at the sad story and offers Jim a position, which he is glad to accept. The finish of the picture shows baby’s arms around Jim’s neck, kissing one another with great affection.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 7 November 2022.
References: Balshofer-OneReel p. ? : Website-IMDb.
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