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User Rating: 7.7*
Director:William Beaudine
Mary Pickford ... Molly
Roy Stewart ... Dennis Wayne
Mary Louise Miller ... Doris Wayne (the baby)
Gustav von Seyffertitz ... Mr. Grimes (as Gustave von Seyffertitz)
Charlotte Mineau ... Mrs. Grimes
Spec O'Donnell ... Ambrose Grimes (as 'Spec' O'Donnell)
Lloyd Whitlock ... Joe Bailey, alias Stone
Billy Butts ... One of the children
Monty O'Grady ... Splutters
Jack Lavine ... One of the children
Billy 'Red' Jones ... One of the children (as Billy Jones)
Muriel McCormac ... One of the children (as Muriel MacCormac)
Florence Rogan ... One of the children
Mary McLain ... One of the children (as Mary Frances McLean)
Sylvia Bernard ... One of the children
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017423/
Genre: Drama

This is an excellent melodrama, with a fine performance by Mary Pickford and much more besides. The settings, characters, and photography create an interesting and memorable world in which the adventures of Molly (Pickford) and the orphans take place, in a story with plenty of drama and suspense.

Evil Mr.Grimes keeps a rag-tag bunch orphans on his farm deep in a swamp in the US South. He forces them to work in his garden and treats them like slaves. They are watched over by the eldest, Molly. A gang in league with Mr. Grimes kidnaps Doris, the beautiful little daughter of a rich man, and hides her out on Grimes' farm, awaiting ransom. When the police close in, and Mr. Grimes threatens to throw Doris into the bottomless mire, Molly must lead her little flock out through the alligator-infested swamp.