This is a slight and improbable story, which serves, however, as a vehicle for rough humor and provokes an audience to hearty laughter. A case of tomatoes is dropped from a wagon and two small boys seize possession of the fruit and start to amuse themselves by pelting all sorts of people, tennis players, art connoisseurs, policemen and others are hit by these disagreeable missiles, and much of the fun in the picture consists in watching the facial contortions of those who have been hit. Finally, of course, the small boys pelt policemen, who are thereupon instrumental in arresting them. By way of punishment the faces of the culprits are smeared with tomatoes, after which, no doubt, the boys promise to be good. As we have said, this is a very slight story; in fact, there is no story at all. It is merely a series of funny incidents strung together. The photography of it is quite clever, for about the movements of the tomatoed victims there is a spontaneity which would lead one to suppose that the film was actually exposed at the instant when the faces of the victims were hit. "A Case of Tomatoes" serves to divert moving picture audiences, a line of work in which the Essanay Company are making many successes. - The Moving Picture World, September 25, 1909
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