Name: The Sunbeam
Released: 1916
Cast: Mabel Taliaferro, Helen Alexandria, Raymond Mckee, Gerald Griffin, Mrs. Breyer

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Nov 27, 1916

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Rolfe Photoplays, Inc.

Distribution Company

Metro Pictures Corp.

Country

United States

Synopsis

Prue, a big-hearted girl of the slums, and Danny O'Maddigan, a reformed crook, want to buy a birthday cake for Prue's seventy-five-year-old grandmother. They live across the hall from Ellen Rutherford, the destitute widow of Steven Rutherford, Jr., who was disinherited by his father, a wealthy candy manufacturer. Prue, who works at the candy factory, gives Ellen the money that was meant for her grandmother's cake so that Ellen will be able to care for her son Bobby. Frustrated over the loss of the money, Danny steals the price of a cake from the factory's safe, leaving the safe's door open in his haste to depart. Danny's former gang arrives and cleans out the safe, and Danny is convicted of the crime and sent to prison for four years. While Danny is in prison, Bobby is struck by his grandfather's car and is slightly injured. Stricken with remorse, Mr. Rutherford effects a reconcilation with his daughter-in-law and promises to use his influence to bring about Danny's release from prison.