I think that "An Arcadian Maid" is a film that is meant to reinforce stereotypes of the day--that traveling salesmen, and perhaps Gypsies, are bad and are not to be trusted. I know this message seems very simplistic and silly, but such messages seemed pretty common in the older silent films.
Arcadian Maid, An (1910) *** (out of 4) D.W.
Fate sometimes overtakes those who betray trusting innocence and does it so forcibly that there can be no question of the result. Here is a villain who induces a trusting girl to commit a robbery.
Down on her luck, dowdy Mary Pickford uses her strong arms to get a job as matronly Kate Bruce's farmhouse maid. While scrub-boarding the laundry, Ms.
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