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The School Teacher and the Waif (1912)

The School Teacher and the Waif (1912)

Drama
Release Date: 1912, June 26
Directors: D.W. Griffith
Countries: United States of America
Production: American Mutoscope & Biograph
Cast: Mae Marsh, Frank Opperman, Edwin August, Mary Pickford, Robert Harron, Claire McDowell, Jack Pickford, Antrim Short, Charles Hill Mailes, Ella Hall, William A. Carroll, Alfred Paget

Overview:

Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends her against the taunts of some of the students, but when she's made to wear a dunce cap, she flees the schoolhouse in shame. Unsupervised by her alcoholic father, Nora becomes a determined truant, wandering the town during school hours. There she catches the attention of a huckster, who convinces her that they will run away and be married. The schoolmaster, meanwhile, preoccupied by Nora's absence, leaves his other students to go find her. He encounters her at a crossroads, being spirited away by the huckster, and calls the man's bluff by saying that he'll find them a minister.