User Reviews

Estimating the probable popularity of these melodramas is like drawing a horoscope. There is nothing to go by except past knowledge of old successes. The audience, here in New York, doesn't often applaud; but we think that audiences outside of New York will applaud this picture vigorously nine times out of ten or oftener. If one asks a New York exhibitor what he thinks of such a picture, he says: "That's a good picture; it is well put together and interesting." Then he adds, "Of course, if one wants to be critical; but." And that but indicates the saving grace. It means that the people are satisfied. Such pictures are built along the well-beaten track. There is nothing new in them; they use the things that have been effective again and again and the producers show good business sense in doing it. They do not expect a great triumph and they don't get it; but, at present, they most surely do produce something of definite and substantial market value. This is well made and well photographed. - The Moving Picture World, May 25, 1912