The Wop (1913)
Luigi is employed by Cramp, the millionaire contractor. He is a widower and lives alone with his daughter, Rosie. There is a strike and Luigi tries to return to work, but is hustled away by the labor pickets. The strike continues, and Luigi is reduced to abject poverty. Cramp is arrested for stealing a large sum of money, but is treated as a gentleman. Grace, the daughter of the judge, devotes her time to charity in the poor quarters. Luigi and Rosie are freezing and Luigi goes to the railroad yards to pick coal. He is arrested and dragged to jail, leaving Rosie at home waiting for his return, suffering from the cold. He tries to expostulate with the officer but to no avail. Cramp is released on an alibi, while Luigi is sentenced to two years at hard labor. He breaks down, and, wild with rage, he curses the judge and threatens to get even. His sentence is served; he hastens to his late home in search of Rosie, of whom he has heard nothing. He finds the house he lived in occupied by strangers who can tell him nothing of his daughter. He wanders forth on the street asking everyone he meets to tell him of Rosie. He passes the house of the judge and sees the man who sentenced him come out with his daughter. Luigi is possessed of but one idea, to kill the child of the man. That night he gains access to the house. In the bed is the form of a girl. Luigi approaches the bed with drawn knife, stoops over and is about to plunge the knife into the bosom of the sleeper when she awakes, rises and looks at him. It is his daughter, Rosie, who has been cared for by Grace. Luigi drops the knife and takes his beloved Rosie in his arms.
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GenresDrama
Short
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Carl Laemmle | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Harold M. Shaw | |
| Edith Haldeman | |
| Laura Lyman | |
| Howard Crampton |
