The Corner Grocer is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by George Cowl and starring Lew Fields, Madge Evans and Lillian Cook.
Kindhearted Charles Wendel, who has built his pushcart grocery business into a prosperous enterprise, adopts little eight-year-old Mary Brian after her mother dies in poverty.
Instead, he goes to work in a bank, where he falls prey to swindlers who convince him to forge his father's name on a $100,000 check.
When the forgery is discovered, the old man covers the check at the cost of his own financial ruin.
Ralph, chagrined, leaves home to make good and soon after returns, prosperous, to wed Mary and restore the fortune and happiness of the Wendel family.