A Child of the Ghetto

Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director D.W. Griffith

Status Released

Release Date 1910-06-06

Storyline

After her mother's death, Ruth struggles to support herself as a seamstress. While Ruth delivers shirts to the factory owner, the owner's son steals some money and Ruth is accused of the crime. She flees the ghetto of New York's Lower East Side and hides in the country where she meets a young farmer.