Review of Hoodoo Ann

A star vehicle for Mae Marsh. Interestingly, this would be a fairly typical sort of movie for Mary Pickford in three or four years. Here, the first half, set in an orphanage, does not wear well, since the inmates consist of 12-year-old boys and twenty-year-old girls. Rather backwards girls for their ages, except physically. The second half is somewhat better, although the entire production rambles hither and yon and despite some excellent production values -- including a spectacular fire -- never quite makes up its mind as to what it wants to be.

Miss Marsh gives a fine performance, particularly in the comic bits. Robert Harron is, alas, rather wasted. Scripted and produced by D.W. Griffith.