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Whether this film is dramatically as powerful as it might be if it were changed a bit depends upon the point of view. There is a novelty, perhaps, in a wealthy man's arraying himself in a workman's clothes, throwing away his keys and locking his own door behind him. His subsequent attempt to enter his own house while seeking relief for an unfortunate and his fatal wounding are undoubtedly dramatically correct; but one must say in reference to the close that the dramatic power of the picture would not have suffered and a pleasanter impression would have been left if the man had been permitted to live after he had learned that "the greatest of these is charity." When there is some hope of a hitherto misspent life being utilized for the benefit of others it doesn't seem quite right to see it ended. Possibly such occurrences are common in real life, but in a drama there is surely no harm in correcting what to a large number of people seem errors of fate or some other malign influence. A pleasanter ending would, one may feel certain, be duly appreciated by the average audience. But in spite of this the film received applause which the action well merited. - The Moving Picture World, February 26, 1910