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The Saving Grace

1914 · 0h 20m · Comedy, Drama, Western

Skip it. This early Western melodrama about a minister's emotional entanglement with a schoolgirl feels more like a relic than a revelation—the plot hinges on a child's jealous meltdown over the minister's romantic interest, which lands awkwardly by any era's standards. Unless you're a silent film completist or Western genre historian, your time is better spent elsewhere.

Plot

Molly Kite, the neglected child of a drunken father, rouses the sympathy of the minister, Mr. Shipton, who also teaches the school at Dead Tree. The minister-school-master persuades some of his parishioners to give the girl decent clothes, and he coaxes her into attending school. At first unruly and sullen, she gradually comes to feel that the minister is her best friend. One day she happens to see him meet a strange girl on the street. Apparently overjoyed, he kisses the stranger. Molly rushes into the house, tears off her new clothes, and vows she will never go to school again.

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