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  • The Greater Obligation (1916)
  • Short | Short, Drama
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The Greater Obligation (1916)
Short | Short, Drama
Mildred Bane goes to the city from her little home town to avoid disgrace and leaves her child on a parsonage steps. Roger Willard marries and leaves the small town also. The couple decide to adopt a baby and are awarded the same child ...See moreMildred Bane goes to the city from her little home town to avoid disgrace and leaves her child on a parsonage steps. Roger Willard marries and leaves the small town also. The couple decide to adopt a baby and are awarded the same child found on the minister's steps. Some years later the boy in playfully eluding his father, now a widower, brings him face to face with Mildred Bane. For revenge, she later kidnaps the boy, and after a long search Willard locates aim. "Yon made a foundling of my child! I'll make an outcast of yours!" she tells him, informing him also where she left her baby some years before, in surprise he answers that the boy is her own, that his wife never bad a child. They are reconciled. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Updated Sep 12, 1916
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Sep 12, 1916 (United States)

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Roger Willard Roger Willard   See fewer
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