His Mother's Son (1913) User Reviews

All the players do clear cut, commendable work

[deickemeyer · 15 September 2017]

This is an imaginative picture of unusual characters which are convincing enough to awaken sympathy, partly because they are played carefully and consistently, and partly because the plot has been cleverly planned to hide the artificiality of one or two of its speedy incidents, such as that in which "his mother's son" kicks the lunch room proprietor about his kitchen. That vigorous-minded mother is a new character and, out of her, the situation is made to spring very convincingly. In the development of this we find the same traits appearing in her son; but now they are used not tyrannously, but valiantly to save the weak old father, the sister and the poor boy (a favorite character with Biograph) and this gives the offering a very pleasing ending. Walter Miller plays the son; W. Christie Miller, the old father; Mae Marsh, the sister and Robert Herron, the poor boy. All the players do clear cut, commendable work. The photography is not as clear as the the best Biographs; but is very fair. - The Moving Picture World, June 14, 1913