The Sunbeam

The Sunbeam

A RAY OF HOPE IN THE TENEMENTS OF AN AMERICAN CITY

NR 1912 · 15 min · ★ 6.3 · Drama, Comedy

Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks on the two. A little girl from the floor above, now alone in the world, brings the pair together and brightens their lives.

Directed by D.W. Griffith · Written by George Hennessy

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