The Upper Hand

1914

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Steve Carson, a mine foreman, is a gambler, given to drinking to excess and brutal to his wife, a woman of superior quality, who lives in constant fear and dread of him. The miners all hate ... Read allSteve Carson, a mine foreman, is a gambler, given to drinking to excess and brutal to his wife, a woman of superior quality, who lives in constant fear and dread of him. The miners all hate him. One day, Blake, a young prospector from the east, arrives at Rex Gulch, and is invite... Read allSteve Carson, a mine foreman, is a gambler, given to drinking to excess and brutal to his wife, a woman of superior quality, who lives in constant fear and dread of him. The miners all hate him. One day, Blake, a young prospector from the east, arrives at Rex Gulch, and is invited up to Carson's home with some of the other men, to play poker. There Blake notes Carson'... Read all

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deickemeyer

A fine release

This interesting picture-drama was written by Henry Kirk and William Humphrey directed and played the lead, opposite Leah Baird, who are ably supported by a competent Vitagraph cast. Nothing more despicable can be conceived than a man who will besmirch his wife's name to shield himself. The husband did this when he found he could not gain supremacy over his wife otherwise. She suffers in silence, but a reckoning comes. The wife's fair name is freed in the ending and she finds happiness with a better man. A fine release. - The Moving Picture World, September 19, 1914