Movies like One of the Finest

Sorrowfully and reminiscently looking through the contents of a little trunk. Mrs. Hennessey is indulging in a sort of memorial service on the anniversary of the death of her child. Sadly she views each memento of the little one until her husband, Sergeant Hennessey, comes into the room and comforts her. Time for post duties arriving the sergeant starts on his rounds and finds a little girl, Nella, on the street begging. He learns from her that she is obliged to beg to support a parcel of worthless vagabonds with whom she lives and whom we see in a previous scene assembled in a most squalid quarter. The girl faints with hunger and exhaustion. He takes her into a drug store and restores her to consciousness and decides to take the child to his home as a companion to his wife and a consolation for the loss of their own child. Mrs. Hennessey is delighted when her husband returns with the girl and she adores her as her own. The rascally crew, finding themselves deprived of Nella's earnings, and learning that Sergeant Hennessey has taken her to his home, and knowing that he is 'running' them down, they plan to be avenged on Hennessey, and six months later they lead him into their den, knock him insensible and hold him prisoner in their own vile quarters. The Sergeant's wife becomes alarmed at his long absence and imparts her fears to Nella, who consoles her foster mother and then prepares for action by disguising herself as a boy violinist. She plays in a saloon which the band of desperadoes frequents, overhears them talking about Hennessey's plight, dons her rags, goes to their den, assumes her old role as padrone, and when the opportunity offers itself, releases her friend and gives him a revolver with which to protect himself. Hennessey gives her his whistle, which she blows for the police, who come and arrest the villains. Sergeant Hennessey returns with Nella to his home, and they are received with much joy by Mrs. Hennessey, who loves little Nella more than ever for her pluck and loyalty.