User Reviews

This can hardly be called an optimistic picture, though the man who is in the toils seems to deserve all his troubles. He is being bled by a blackmailer and has no more money. In an interesting dive this blackmailer pulls a revolver and is shot by the man in self-defense. The man goes to prison. We then see that his wife has married again; she seems to think him dead, which is somewhat bewildering. The convict escapes over the wall and later seems to be compelled to become a burglar. His own little girl finds him in the house. She is not frightened and apparently recognizes him as her father by firelight. She was only a baby when he saw her last. He doesn't know her; she tells him who she is and shows him his picture. This recognition is also bewildering. He is discovered with the child by her stepfather and kills himself. The man covers the face of the body as his wife comes down the stairs. It has dramatic scenes and is well acted, but it is not very convincing. - The Moving Picture World, July 22, 1911