"Fannie Ward's career on stage and screen was based on one peculiar talent - her ability to remain ever-youthful right up to her death in 1952. The actress was 44 when she starred in Years of the Locust, one of the more than a dozen films in which she was featured during the silent era, usually in company with her husband, Jack Dean. The script gives Miss Ward ample opportunity to display her considerable and often over-emphatic emotional talents and to wear innumerable shiny gowns, as well as providing a suitably odious part for the silent screen's best known villain, Walter Long, fresh from his triumph as Gus in Birth of a Nation." --Anthony Slide