The Criminal
1916, English. Directed by Reginald Barker.
A young Italian immigrant girl, uneducated and superstitious, finds an abandoned baby on the stairs of her tenement, with a note attached explaining the baby is illegitimate. A young newspaper reporter, whom the girl knows from waiting on him at the restaurant where she works, reads the note for her. But the police arrest her, at no evidence whatsoever other than possession of the baby, for kidnapping.
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- 0h 55m
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- English
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- 2 December 1916
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The Criminal isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 2 December 1916. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Criminal?
The Criminal (1916) was directed by Reginald Barker and stars Clara Williams, William Desmond, Enid Willis.