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Black Sheep
UNITED STATES · 1912

Black Sheep

D.W. Griffith
parental abandonment moral degradation family separation redemption through tragedy child welfare
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Synopsis

You would think that the death of his wife through his dissipation and neglect would have brought Jack Moreland to his senses. Instead he is more dissipated, and deserts his child, Clara, who is taken by her uncle, Harold Moreland, and brought up in ignorance of her father's existence.

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