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UNITED STATES · 1909

A Midnight Adventure

D.W. Griffith
love and jealousy theft and crime romantic betrayal social class and corruption proof of devotion
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Synopsis

Mercedes orders her sweetheart to prove his love by doing something dangerously heroic. He agrees, breaking into another young woman's house in order to steal a photograph. The young woman catches him and has him arrested, but he is released when a family friend bribes the police. Mercedes eventually returns the stolen photograph only to find her boyfriend in the other woman's arms.

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