
A Child for Sale
Summary
Set against the bohemian yet unforgiving backdrop of a pre-gentrified Greenwich Village, this 1920 melodrama navigates the labyrinthine psyche of an artist whose creative aspirations are abruptly decapitated by the death of his spouse. Stranded in a liminal space between parental devotion and the visceral sting of penury, the protagonist undergoes a catastrophic moral erosion, ultimately bartering one of his two offspring to a sterile, affluent couple. The narrative functions as a harrowing exploration of the commodification of innocence, tracing the artist's descent into a purgatorial guilt that eventually ignites a frantic, desperate campaign to rescind his Faustian bargain and reclaim the fractured remnants of his domesticity.
Synopsis
A struggling artist in Greewich Village is devastated when his wife dies. Left with two children and with little money to support them, in desperation he sells one of them to a childless but wealthy couple. When he realizes what he has done, he determines not to go through with the "deal".
Director

Gladys Leslie, Julia Swayne Gordon, William H. Tooker, Ruth Sullivan, Anna Lehr, William Bechtel, Creighton Hale, Bobby Connelly, William B. Davidson
Ivan Abramson











