User Reviews

A picture that will entertain and please and that the audience seemed to enjoy. But it is not what could be called a strong picture. One feels that more might have been made from the scenario, which seems well written. The author is Frederick E. Wright. Its one weakness lies in the fact that not one player in it was well cast. Of course, Arthur Johnson is never less than himself, even when playing a farmer or a workingman, but he is never at his best in such parts. Lottie Briscoe, as a tenement house girl, is more convincing, but, as usual, hers is the romantic part. Clara Lambert plays the old mother of the farmer lad who cannot pay a mortgage on his farm and comes to the city to find work. He gets into trouble until "Red," the gangster and the Samaritan, helps him. Except for the choice of players, the picture is well produced. There is some humor in it, and it also holds interest. Jack McDonald is "Red," and is comical if not convincing. - The Moving Picture World, December 14, 1912