Movie Details
Theatrical Release:May 24th, 1910
Original Language:English
Production Companies:American Mutoscope Biograph
The Purgation (1910)
15 minMay 24th, 1910
Two burglars break into an apartment to rob it One look at the sleeping daughter of the house and one of the burglars is so smitten that he forces his companion from the apartment at gunpoint and resolves to go straight Later rescuing the girl from an attack the boy is welcomed into the familys home He goes to work for the fathers company and becomes engaged to the girl The boys former companions steal some jewels from the fathers safe and the boy retrieves them but not without exposing his own criminal past The familys trust in him is now shattered but the boy asks and receives a chance to prove himself worthy after all
DirectorD.W. Griffith
