The Criminal (1916)
A young Italian immigrant girl, uneducated and superstitious, finds an abandoned baby on the stairs of her tenement, with a note attached explaining the baby is illegitimate. A young newspaper reporter, whom the girl knows from waiting on him at the restaurant where she works, reads the note for her. But the police arrest her, at no evidence whatsoever other than possession of the baby, for kidnapping.
Director: Reginald Barker
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Clara Williams as Naneta |
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William Desmond as Donald White |
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Enid Willis as The Baby |
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Joseph J. Dowling as Carlos Lupoli |
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Gertrude Claire as Mother Marie |
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Charles K. French as Pietro |
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Walt Whitman as Police Magistrate |
| Directing | Reginald Barker | Director |
| Writing | C. Gardner Sullivan | Scenario Writer |
| Production | Thomas H. Ince | Producer |
| Camera | Charles E. Kaufman | Director of Photography |
| Art | Robert Brunton | Art Direction |