Her Child's Honor (1911) User Reviews

The Cat Came Back

[boblipton · 6/10 · 11 October 2016]

Albert McGovern has just had his rank stripped and is on a toot. He raises his hand to wife Florence Lawrence, so she leaves him. When next we see her, she is working in a hospital for handsome doctor Arthur Johnson. She gets a telegram that Albert has been shot as a deserter, so she falls into Arthur's arms and in the time it takes to cut to the next scene, they have a three-year-old child. Whereupon, Albert shows up...

Florence Lawrence was the first movie star created solely by the movies, so this one is about her: her anguish, her gypsy dance and her suffering. She's certainly up to it, even though the situation is ridiculous and melodramatic, as is the solution to her issues.

Still, it's worth a look, and there is a good copy on the Eye Institute site on Youtube.

Her Child's Honor review

[JoeytheBrit · 5/10 · 22 June 2020]

Florence Lawrence, the movies' first movie star, takes centre stage here as a woman who remarries and has a child in the mistaken belief that her first husband has been shot as a deserter. News of his death proves to be greatly exaggerated, however, leaving her in a bit of a tizzy when he shows up alive and well after three years. A silly melodrama that doesn't make a lot of sense, but it does have one terrific cut just as someone is about to be stabbed to death.

Dramatic situations not commonly seen in photoplays

[deickemeyer · 31 December 2015]

The interest in this picture increases in intensity as it runs, to the climax which comes with the second marriage with the doctor, and the death which follows immediately. It is an interesting complication, developing dramatic situations not commonly seen in photoplays. The duel, in which the man and woman are mortally wounded, is properly suppressed. The results are sufficient. The death of the man first, allowing the woman to marry again with her last breath, insuring her child's honor, is a fitting close to a picture altogether out of the ordinary. The acting is upon a high plane and the photography is clear. - The Moving Picture World, April 8, 1911