The Miser's Heart (1911)

Synopsis (complete with spoilers): A little girl whose mother is very ill is told to go play in the common area of the tenement where she lives. There she encounters the miser who lives upstairs. He is coming from the bakery and the little girl takes a loaf of bread from him. The miser initially protests, then comiserates with her, finally deciding on a fraction of a loaf, taking back the remaining portion of it. He then climbs to his apartment where he holds a vault with his savings. Meanwhile on the street a thief is released from jail; once in the street he steals a sack of bread from the bakery's employee, runs away and arrives at the building where the little girl lives; they meet, he gives her some bread and starts to eat. She goes up to the miser's house to offer him the bread (in retribution for the one he had given her?). Meanwhile a pair of house thieves is planning to rob the miser's money. When they enter through a window they encounter the miser and the little girl. They tie the old man up and ask him for the vault's combination. He won't give it, so they threaten the girl. Only after they hang her outside the window threatening to drop her to the floor (remember the apartment is upstairs) he agrees to give them the combination. Meanwhile the other thief (the one who had stolen the bread) sees the girl hanging outside the window and calls the police. They arrive in the building, save the miser and the little girl and arrest the bad burglars. The miser then goes down to the little girl's apartment and offers her mother some money, to buy medicine for her and perhaps a doll for her daughter.