A Harp in Hock, also known as The Samaritan, is a lost 1927 American silent melodrama film directed by Renaud Hoffman, produced by DeMille Pictures, and distributed by Pathé Exchange. The film starred Rudolph Schildkraut, Junior Coghlan, May Robson, and Bessie Love, and was based on the short story by Evelyn Campbell.
Plot In New York City, pawnbroker Isaac Abrams must take in an orphaned immigrant boy, Tommy, after his mother dies. Tommy helps at the pawn shop and goes to school, but after a fight with a bully, the bully's mother, Mrs. Banks, reports him to the authorities and has him sent to an orphanage.
Tommy escapes and returns to New York, where he upsets Mrs. Banks and a riot breaks out, but Abrams then adopts Tommy.
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Reception
The film received positive reviews, particularly the performances of Schildkraut and Coghlan.
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