The Gambler's Heart
- 1912
- 10m
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It isn't strongly convincing
The gambler had won the foreman's money (it wasn't his own) and had overseen the man's despair. His heart was touched, perhaps he was conscience stricken. He left the money where the foreman could get it and a note advising him to leave gambling alone. The photographs are clear and the story quite plain; but it isn't strongly convincing. One will be apt to ask what the gambler was in business for, to give back the money he had won. Another will say, though, that the foreman's predicament made him realize how inhuman his business was and made him determine to forsake it. There is no heroine or love story connected with it. It is neither romantic nor comic, but depends on the elemental dramatic situation expressed by the question, "Will the foreman kill himself?" and on the higher interest expressed by the question, "Will the gambler relent?" The first doesn't excite us deeply; we are not very warmly attracted by him. The other question is not answered very convincingly. So we are not deeply affected either way. - The Moving Picture World, January 20, 1912
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- deickemeyer
- Jul 23, 2016
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- Runtime10 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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