The Cry of the Children

29m
Drama
5.3

An indictment of the evils of child labor, the film was controversial in its time for its use of actual footage of children employed in a working mill.

Cast

Marie Eline
Alice, the little girl
Ethel Wright
The working mother
James Cruze
The working father
Lila Chester
The factory owner's wife
William Russell
The factory owner

Crew

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Poem
George Nichols
Director

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