Sadie Goes to Heaven

Sadie Goes to Heaven

1917 · 50 min · ★ 10.0 · Comedy, Drama

Little six-year-old Sadie O'Malley, a child of the tenement district, has a vision of heaven awakened within her by the teaching of a settlement worker, so when she sees a handsome limousine in front of the settlement laundry near her home she thinks it is a heavenly chariot, climbs into a clothes hamper in the interior of the car and is whisked away to the home of Mrs. Welland Riche.

Directed by W.S. Van Dyke · Written by Dana Burnet

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