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Poster for Shoes (1916)

Shoes (1916)

1916 · Silent film · 20 min · dir. Lois Weber

  • Drama

Synopsis

Eva Meyer works in a five and ten-cent store for five dollars a week. At home her mother takes in washing to help support three smaller children and a lazy, beer-drinking, novel-reading, good-for-nothing husband and father. For months Eva has needed a pair of shoes. As the weeks pass the necessity for shoes increases, until finally heavy rains set in and rot what little there is left of her bedraggled and worthless shoes, until they are literally falling from her feet. Eva brings her unopened…

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Details

Director
Lois Weber
Writer
Jane Addams
Cinematography
King D. Gray
Studio
Bluebird Photoplays, Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Released
1916-06-26
Running time
20 minutes

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