This picture lingers on the sordid miseries in the home of a man who drinks and is brutal when drunk. Too many know all about such things. The picture's object was to give a broad enough canvas on which to paint the conversion of the drunken father. The truth is that fathers who have fallen so low as this seldom, very seldom, are converted. This one, after a spree, saw his little boy playing house and acting the drunken father just as he had acted it the day before. It disgusted him and he promised his wife not to do it again. The picture shows that he kept his promise. The Biograph players and producers have done much to hold it above petty realism by very praiseworthy art. It is not a very cheerful picture. - The Moving Picture World, December 30, 1911
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