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This picture's situation came from real life. This doesn't mean that its writer (Bannister Merwin) necessarily saw it take place; it means that he didn't crib it from other pictures. Also he was plainly interested in it as a fresh study. It is significant; it suggests thought to the spectator who leaves the theater with something substantial. He hasn't drawn a large nor a deep picture; it is intense. In it, we find a young man at a point, so to speak, where three roads meet and follow the struggle that comes out of the need to choose. This kind of situation has been the backbone of all virile drama. No people ever had a clearer sense of what was dramatic than the imaginative Greeks and the Greeks usually erected a stone or statue beside the spots where three roads met and made wayside shrines of them. The author puts his hero, a young doctor, in a situation where he has to choose between his duty to his father, to whom he owes everything, and a bright future with the love of a beautiful girl. He then develops the situation convincingly and with sympathetic optimism. It is not wholly convincing; especially afterward one begins to doubt and to pick it to pieces; but while it is on the screen it holds the attention closely. Benjamin Wilson plays the young doctor; Wm. West, who becomes the center of interest by his acting, plays the father, the old doctor. The player who takes the part of his wife should be mentioned Laura Sawyer, always Ai, is the girl. Her father is played by James Gordon. It is a strong, desirable picture. - The Moving Picture World, August 17, 1912