Heliotrope

Heliotrope

10.0IMDb Score
Released:1920-11-28
Genre:Drama
Duration:70 min
Director:George D. Baker
Actors:Wilfred Lytell, Ben Hendricks Sr., Julia Swayne Gordon, Betty Hilburn, Diana Allen
Production:Cosmopolitan Productions
Keywords:prison,inmate

Overview:

A prison inmate obtains his release from prison in order to rescue his daughter from the clutches of her unscrupulous mother's plot to implicate the girl in a blackmail scheme.

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