Street Angel (1928)

Angela attempts stealing so she can buy medicine for her mother. When she's caught and sentenced to the workhouse, she escapes to get back to her mom whom she finds has died in her absence. A traveling circus kindly hides her from the cops who are on her trail and she makes a life with them on the road. Soon she's fallen in love with a dreamy artist and they head back to the city so he can make his fortune -- but the law's still waiting there for Angela

Though overlong, this was fine up until the very end when the dreamy artist becomes a physical threat to Angela. But he apologizes for attempting to choke her out, so that's cool right?

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