"This 1914 feature, unseen for seventy years, packs into an hour the sort of wild melodrama that now would require a week-long mini-series. There are sibling hatreds, patricide, a forged will, underground tortures, transsexual circus disguises-and that's all in the first reel! Most of the absolutely unsummarizable plot revolves around an innocent son's attempt to clear himself of murder charges with the aid of a pickpocket, 'Artful Dick, king of the dips.' As unintentionally ludicrous as this now plays, director Oscar Apfel (who was responsible for several of the early features for which Cecil B. De Mille is often solely credited) has a flair for keeping things moving right along. The result is a film which provides a better look-especially in this fine print-of the vibrancy of early silent features than more celebrated, but ponderous, examples." Scott Simmon