The Great Discovery (1913) User Reviews

Abrupt changes from riches to poverty and back again to riches

[deickemeyer · 24 November 2017]

This is the familiar story of the young man of science whose researches so engross his mind that he neglects his wife. It is well pictured and acted with a degree of charm and sincerity that make the film decidedly interesting. Even the arrival of the scientist's baby does not serve to interrupt his condition of indifference. His wife finally deserts him and three years later he rescues the child at a fire. The abrupt changes from riches to poverty and back again to riches might have been accounted for more fully but the main theme is brought out clearly. The exact nature of his scientific work might have been shown, though this was not entirely essential. - The Moving Picture World, October 11, 1913