Sally of the Sawdust

Judge Foster throws his daughter out of the house. The reason is that she married a circus man. The young woman dies some time later. Before she dies she leaves her baby girl with Professor McGargle. McGargle works in the circus. He raises the little girl himself. Sally grows up to be a dancer in the show. Peyton, the son of a friend of Judge Foster, falls in love with her. The gap between the two young people is talked about around them. One day Sally is arrested. That is the point at which McGargle stops keeping quiet. He brings out who her real parents were. The judge finds himself facing his own granddaughter. The film holds comedy and feeling together. The circus world of the silent era is carried onto the screen. Carol Dempster and W.C. Fields appear in the hundred and fourteen minute film, an American production D.W. Griffith finished in 1925.