This film, for its time, must have been quite shocking. It deals with abortion, specifically a married woman who goes to a "specific doctor" who helps women out. In this little morality play, starring Tryone Power Sr. (swashbuckling Tyrone's dad, who was in quite a number of films, including "The Big Trail," an early experimental wide screen film) is about his wife who prefers partying to raising children. The acting is typical of silents in the teens of last century, with not terribly good sets and quite a bit of histrionic acting. That said, this is an important film because it deals with subject matter that, almost a century later we still haven't resolved. Regardless of where your position is on abortion, films like this show that this problem has been around for a LOT longer than anyone would like to admit, much like the drug problem that was so ably parodied in Chaplin's "Easy Street" (where Charlie plays a cop who can only clean up the town when he's hopped up on cocaine or some other drug - remember, he falls thru a window onto a syringe and that magic elixir helps he defeat the bad guys). More to the point, this film doesn't go out of its way (for its time)to affix blame (aside from the doctor), and is somewhat poignant in the final montage of a couple growing old with no children. For serious film fans, this is must see film.
Review of Where Are My Children?
