A two reel offering that makes no pretense of living up to its title, for it is frankly melodramatic and in no sense a psychological study. The father of a pretty girl is a crook and burglar; but he has never let her suspect it and he dies (killed by one of his own gang) in the odor of respectability. The girl and her sweetheart never know the truth. This story is too slight to be very effective, especially with two reels of film. The picture has some pretty backgrounds and good sets; is fairly acted and has excellent photography throughout. The producer's work was good; all of the scenes were handled to get the best out of the material. Robert Broderick plays the crook; Irene Boyle, his daughter, and Robert Ellis, her sweetheart. William R. Dunn plays the one of the crook's gang who is obstreperous and who kills him in a pistol fight alone in a darkened room; the flashes showing when a gun is fired. - The Moving Picture World, January 17, 1914
