Captain January (1924 film)

Captain January is a 1924 silent film featuring child star Baby Peggy. It was the first screen adaptation of the 1891 childrens book Captain January by Laura E. Richards.

January helps Judkins with his tasks around the lighthouse. As Judkins heart begins to fail and his health worsens, these tasks become increasingly more complicated and important. In one instance, January must ascend to the top of the lighthouse by herself to light the lamps. The local townsfolk become skeptical of Judkins ability to care for the girl, and try to have her taken away.January is saved from the orphanage by a chance meeting with Isabelle Morton Irene Rich, an affluent young woman who comes to visit the lighthouse. She believes that January looks familiar when she sees the photograph in the locket, she identifies January as her late sisters child. ........

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