This is a very intelligently produced picture of a tragic incident. It doesn't seem as effective as it ought to be. It is an extremely difficult situation to picture adequately, for the bitterness in such an old man's heart at being ill-treated by his two daughters, to whom he has given everything he owns, needs words to express it. The village Lear has to sit in judgment on himself and his daughters before he can feel all their sharp-toothed unkindness. These are things that cannot be expressed by gestures along. The acting is very good, but though the picture is interesting, it doesn't get across powerfully. - The Moving Picture World, July 22, 1911
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