The Criminal

The Criminal — Plot

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.

• Release date
• December 2, 1916
• Runtime
• 55 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Reginald Barker

The Criminal — Cast

Clara Williams Naneta William Desmond Donald White

E

Enid Willis The Baby Joseph J. Dowling Carlos Lupoli Gertrude Claire Mother Marie Charles K. French Pietro Walt Whitman Police Magistrate