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The Mother and the Law (1919)99 minDramaRating 47/100

The story of a working mother who loses her baby to a corrupt orphanage, is a morality tale about the inconsistency of present-day laws and how two innocents are drawn into its net.

Cast: Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Miriam Cooper, Vera Lewis, Sam De Grasse, Clyde E. Hopkins

Director: D.W. Griffith