No Greater Love is a 1932 drama film directed by Lewis Seiler. It stars Dickie Moore and Alexander Carr.
Plot Sidney Cohen, the owner of a deli cares for everyone and is Jewish. Mildred and her mom live above the deli, they are Irish Catholic and Mildred is also unable to walk she spends her time in a wheelchair. When Mildreds mom dies Sidney adopts her. When they hear of a surgeon that could potentially fix her legs Sidney sells a portion of his deli in hope of it working. When the surgery doesn't work the misfortune follows with Mildred getting sent away to the orphanage. Sidney realizes he doesn't have much will to live without Mildred and ends up getting pneumonia. Mildred is able to leave the orphanage and help him back to good health and ends with a miracle and them being reunited.
Cast Dickie Moore as Tommy Burns Alexander Carr as Sidney Cohen Richard Bennett as Surgeon Beryl Mercer as Mrs. Burns Hobart Bosworth as Doctor Betty Jane Graham as Mildred Flannigan Alec B. Francis as Priest Mischa Auer as Rabbi Helen Jerome Eddy as Superintendent
Reception Film critic Martin Dickstein of the Brooklyn Eagle criticized the film for being excessively melodramatic.
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