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The Modern Prodigal

Genres

Drama

Duration

13 min

Director

D.W. Griffith

Rating

5.0

Release Date

August 28, 1910

The Modern Prodigal

Original title: The Modern Prodigal

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Synopsis

In the opening of this subject we find the callow youth as he points towards the city's spires, exclaiming to his dear old mother, "Mother, there in the big city is my sphere. There will I turn the world over." Off he goes cityward, ambitious and presumptuous, and perhaps we may add reckless. Alas, the city's whirl is quite a change from the simple quiet life in the country and the youth falls a victim to the snares that beset the unsophisticated.