The Town That Forgot God

The Town That Forgot God

1922 · 90 min · ★ 8.0 · Drama, Romance

A village schoolteacher, unaware that Eben, the village carpenter, is in love with her, marries a surveyor and has a son, David. Eben, distraught at losing her, goes away, and he returns years later to find that David, now an orphan, is running away from his cruel foster father, the squire. Eben befriends David, and when the town is destroyed by a storm the two escape harm. An epilog shows David 25 years later as a successful businessman, happily married, helping to rebuild the town.

Directed by Harry F. Millarde · Written by Paul Sloane

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