Sparrows. Mary Pickford is back in one of her twelve-year-old ragamuffin roles. This time she is little "Mama Mollie," that maternal wisp of a girl who battles for a tribe of smudgy-faced, curly-haired, innocent-eyed orphans against the cruelty of one Grimes, keeper of a baby farm in ' the swampy southlands. Mr. Grimes has a half-witted wife, and belongs to the Charles Dickens-school of characters.
The cinematography is good. There are real alligators and fake Spanish moss. The plot calls up tears of Little Annie Rooney.
The title of the film was orginally...
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