The School Teacher and the Waif

Year: 1912

Runtime: 17 mins

Director: D.W. Griffith

Drama

Nora, a neglected waif, is forced into school where a kind teacher defends her from bullies. Humiliated with a dunce cap she runs away, becoming a truant under her alcoholic father's lax watch. In town a huckster promises marriage and escape. The teacher leaves class, finds her, confronts the swindler and demands a minister to legitimize it.

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