The Country Boy

Just a romance in which Betty Gray plays the heroine and Charles Arling her wealthy father. Although at first Betty is an invalid, she travels out to the West alone, notwithstanding the ample means of her people. This is merely a specimen of work that many producers carelessly leave in their pictures, expecting the spectators to excuse them. Even where such are excused the picture suffers none the less. The only really fresh or convincing part of this offering is the manner in which the heroine's father's factory catches fire. The girl is in the building; she has recovered and has come back from the West. A cowboy who had fallen in love with her and who had come to the city and had been given the cold shoulder by her father is now on the fire force and rescues her. In the first place, these stories in which poor cowpunchers who are grown up and who fall in love with rich girls so young that they wear their hair down their backs, are anything but convincing. This one invites cynical thoughts. It is pretty well photographed, but very poorly acted. - The Moving Picture World, December 7, 1912