The Bribe

Exhibitors who were at the Kalem outing during the recent convention played roles in this picture. It is a political melodrama and the crowds at the Kalem outing as audience helped Producer R.G. Vignola make his speech scenes. The story is fair, but not above the ordinary. The situation is quite possible, and while there are some things in its development that seem hardly probable and some of it that is not wholly clear (the reason for the delay in the marriage ceremony, for instance) it holds the interest and that, after all, is the main thing. The players (including Delegate George P. Plain of the Maryland State League, who took a good look at the camera) do very well. Raymond Bloomer as the reform candidate didn't wear his hat like a businessman mayor. His political rival (Arthur Donaldson) made a good conventional melodramatic villain. Alice Hollister plays the heroine; Richard Bartlett her first fiancé, and Helen Lindroth the villain's accomplice, who later gives his plot away. - The Moving Picture World, September 20, 1913