Mary Pickford and Mabel Normand, two of silent cinema's biggest female stars, combine for this otherwise ordinary tale of romantic entanglements amongst simple fishing folk from D. W. Griffith. The story is rudimentarky, and the acting sometimes borders on the melodramatic, but there is one effective sequence in which the brother of a jilted woman tries to get a clear shot at the man who dumped her. The seaside locations are also picturesque.
Review of The Mender of Nets
