Barry O'Moore is the weedy, wastrel son of steel worker Charles Ogle. Ogle is a brute of a man, but when he falls ill, sends the youngster to the mill to get a job to support the family.
This early Charles Brabin movie is dramatically side-lit, a camera technique he was fond of. The scenes in the steel mill look like they were influenced by the Lumiere's LES FORGERONS, and the fours of flame coming out of the furnaces make the workplace a hellish place... as does the anger, exhaustion and growing brutishness of O'Moore. The result is a brief contemplation of hard working conditions, slight of itself, but showing the growing impetus towards longer movies.
This early Charles Brabin movie is dramatically side-lit, a camera technique he was fond of. The scenes in the steel mill look like they were influenced by the Lumiere's LES FORGERONS, and the fours of flame coming out of the furnaces make the workplace a hellish place... as does the anger, exhaustion and growing brutishness of O'Moore. The result is a brief contemplation of hard working conditions, slight of itself, but showing the growing impetus towards longer movies.
