Here's a film designed to improve all those who watch it. One of a series of twelve three-reel dramas in the delightfully named Who Pays? series, Toil and Tyranny stars Ruth Roland as the spoiled daughter of a wicked lumber baron who abuses his workers with low pay and long hours. (Apparently Roland enjoyed the series so much that she buried prints of all twelve episodes in her backyard. There's no accounting for taste, but film archivists were delighted to discover the films still existed.) Toil and Tyranny is a plea for bosses to be nicer to their workers and for workers to understand and appreciate the difficulties faced by their lords and masters. Who Pays? may as well have been entitled Why Can't We All Just Get Along?. It's not bad, but it's about as palatable as a spoonful of castor oil.
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