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"The Accomplice" is a five-part production that most audiences will like, and presents incidents which are no doubt synonymous with ordinary happenings in New York's smart set. The story, written by Anthony Kelly, is interesting, despite the fact that it contains no strongly heroic characters, with the exception of Miriam Collins, private secretary to the Hon. Nicholas Harcourt, one of the prime movers of Wall Street, and father of a son and daughter who had drifted along their idle ways with varied aspirations. Miriam Collins proves to be the guardian angel and re-generator of the son of the Harcourt family, and suffers much through the contempt of her class flaunted at her by the head of the family. This role is played acceptably by Florence Hamilton, but is rather too smartly gowned to be convincing; and moreover, the young woman's apartment is more richly appointed than that of the average woman of her profession. Dorothy Bernard is exceptionally pleasing as Katherine Harcourt, and Jack Sherrill as the son of the Harcourt family, persuaded into making good on his own account through his love of Miriam Collins, also does good work. In the story, which brings Harcourt's daughter into the unfortunate position of becoming fascinated by a famous dancer, on whose account she is forced to prove an alibi because she happened to be with him on the evening of the murder of his former sweetheart and dancing partner, various inconsistencies are noticeable, principally in the development of character. For instance the deliberate manner in which the private secretary offers to besmirch her own good name to save the reputation of the trifling daughter of her employer, who has already called her an adventuress, does not ring true in representation of the more sensible modern feminine. One of the most pleasing character interpretations in the picture is given by W.J. Brady in the role of the elder Harcourt. – The Moving Picture World, February 24, 1917