The Heart of Humanity. 1919. USA. Directed by Allen Holubar. Silent, with musical accompaniment. Approx. 100 min.
With Dorothy Philips, William Stowell, Robert Anderson, Margaret Mann, Walt Whitman, Erich von Stroheim. A Canadian widow, several of whose sons have been killed in the war, goes to Flanders to help care for homeless children. This is the film in which Stroheim famously throws a baby out of the window for annoying him during an attempted rape.
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