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Criminology and Reform

Criminology and Reform

1914Short⏱️ 11m
ShortComedyDrama

At the prison the reformers obtained a picture of the very worst case on record. He was used as an example of the criminal incapable of reform. "Such people should be confined, not one redeeming trait," declared the lecturer. His ...

Director
N/A
Writers
N/A
Stars
Charles E. Graham
Release Date
February 21, 1914
Language
None, English
Country
United States
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🎭 Top Cast

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Charles E. Graham
as The Convict

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Production
Biograph Company

🎯 Categories

ComedyDramaShort

⭐ Featured Review

Teaches a good lesson
by deickemeyer2018-05-25

"This photoplay shows how parents become interested in fads and clubs to the neglect of their own children; a responsibility which should be paramount above every other obligation. There is a clever little girl character left in the care of a frivolous nurse while the father goes out to lecture on criminology and the mother on reform. The child is taken sick while the nurse is galavanting with a patrolman. The criminal whose photograph is used by the father as an illustration of viciousness, burglarizes the house and discovers the little one's condition. At the risk of his being apprehende..."

📖 Synopsis

At the prison the reformers obtained a picture of the very worst case on record. He was used as an example of the criminal incapable of reform. "Such people should be confined, not one redeeming trait," declared the lecturer. His ...