Circumstantial Evidence (I) (1912) User Reviews

The plot-making shows care and the story is clear

[deickemeyer · 4 February 2017]

A triangular love story in which one of a girl's two lovers knows that his rival is innocent of a crime charged against him; but lets him go to prison on circumstantial evidence and only confesses that he had withheld testimony years later. The plot-making shows care and the story is clear. It lacks character drawing, but has very interesting backgrounds, one of which is road-making by prison labor on the "Colorado Honor System"; we see the men at work, also the tent village where they sleep. William Duncan plays the hero; Lester Cuneo the villain and Myrtle Stedman the girl. Others in the cast are Marshall Stedman, the old minister; Josephine West, the hero's mother; with Otis B. Thayer, Rex de Rosselli, and Warden Tynon in other roles. It is an adaptation from Hapsburg Liebes', "The Little Good," and was produced by Otis B. Thayer. - The Moving Picture World, September 21, 1912