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Film · United Artists · 1926

Sparrows

Name: Sparrows scores 69 — Live Historic
Item: Sparrows
Rating: 69
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69Worth an evening.

A child will be frightened, and she is still the one doing a mother's work in that swamp.

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The review

The swamp is not a playground, and I want that said before we start. Mary Pickford, a grown woman playing a girl again, leads a brood of children out of a baby farm. United Artists, 1926, a well-known hit, not the year's leader. A child can watch it and will be frightened. The farm is a prison. I am not going further into the cruelty than that.

She is the one who does the work of a mother. That is the part I trusted. I would not put this on for a small child who startles, and I would not skip it with an older one who can hear that the farm is a prison. Say the star is not a child. Then let the escape be the work. Fright is not a reason to linger, and it is not a reason to shrug.

Journal

Keep Sparrows in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 69. Yours can differ.

The glance

Temperance is the thin one.

Is appetite shown and then put down, or are you being trained to want the next one?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Yearling

75 instead of 69

The Yearling is still a drama film, and it scores 75 instead of 69. What you gain is temperance: The boy's want is refused because the fawn eats what they have to live on.

The eight

8
Industry
Pickford's girl does a mother's work leading children off a baby farm.
8
Household
A brood of children has her as the parent the baby farm will not be.
7
Piety
She will not leave them in a place the picture itself calls a prison.
8
Courage
She risks the swamp to get children out of a farm that holds them.
6
Republic
Children held on a baby farm are owed a way out, and she takes it.
5
Temperance
The fright is the prison and the swamp, not a dare to want more harm.
6
Truth
The farm is a prison, and a grown woman is playing the girl who leads.
7
Stewardship
What she leaves the children is a way out of the farm and the swamp.

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Film · Italy · 1916

Cenere

69Worth an evening.

A mother sees the son she gave up and leaves, so she will not ruin his life.

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The review

She gave him up, and then she sees him again. A mother, a son, and a choice not to ruin the life he has. Eleanora Duse's only film. Italian, 1916, not an American gross. The face is why the picture was made. A house can watch it. I watched it hoping I would leave a hard meeting that cleanly, and I am not sure I would.

The leaving is the mercy. She does not spend his life to ease the meeting. That is a household doing a hard thing, not a famous face collecting a bow. The camera came for the face. I would keep the mercy. If the kids are up, the line is short: she meets him, and she will not break what he already has.

Journal

Keep Cenere in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 69. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Republic are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Enoch Arden

79 instead of 69

Enoch Arden is still a drama film, and it scores 79 instead of 69. What you gain is industry: He is a sailor, and that wrecked work is why the years pass.