Rezension von deickemeyer

A good offering that was clearly pleasing to the audience. . Francis X. Bushman plays the lead in it ably supported by Ruth Stonehouse. One will also find many fine things in the lesser characters as acted by John Steppling, Joseph Allen, Bryant Washburn and others. The story is clear and chooses a significant situation, so truthfully human and worthwhile that a plain, simple development of it would have stood up well. In fact, the picture had a better "punch" up to the time the foreman was conventionally shown to be a coward, than it did at any time after. A man and woman had been divorced, because the man couldn't control his temper. The man had left the city and, to make a man of himself, had got a job in a mine which, later, through a legacy, becomes the property of his former wife. The man, at the works, has to see the foreman making love to her. What a chance to show that the man had now learned to govern his temper! The picture fails to do it very clearly, and loses its golden crown to rake among the dry straw of conventional melodrama. It is pretty well photographed, on the whole. - The Moving Picture World, June 14, 1913