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DAILY
Sunday, May 1, 1921
Star Has Had Much Better Pictures
William Farnum in
"HIS GREATEST SACRIFICE"
Fox
DIRECTOR J Gordon Edwards
AUTHOR , Not credited
SCENARIO BY Paul H. Sloane
CAMERAMAN Harry Keepers
AS A WHOLE Some fair human interest but is
too long drawn out and coincidence too prominent STORY. . . .Gives star good dramatic role but doesn't possess anything very original
DIRECTION Satisfactory; compels sympathy
by his manner of handling situations
PHOTOGRAPHY All right
LIGHTINGS Fair
CAMERA WORK Average
STAR Will please his admirers in this
SUPPORT Alice Fleming gives good performance, also Evelyn Greely
EXTERIORS Few
INTERIORS Ordinary
DETAIL Suffices
CHARACTER OF STORY Wife sacrifices love
of husband and baby for a career
LENGTH OF PRODUCTION About 6,000 feet
William Farnum's latest Fox offering is a human interest story that compels a good deal of sympathy
for the hero, but it is carried to extremes and the feature is so long that it almost becomes tedious. Toward the close, coincidence is allowed too prominent a position, which in a way detracts from the sympathy previously established. After the story reaches a certain point it is obvious what the ending will be, but they keep delaying it.
The director has done pretty well with the piece when you consider its lack of originality and that it is fundamentally of the most familiar formula of drama. He has secured a fine sympathy through the devotion of the father for his child. The story is smoothly unfolded with perhaps just one exception. They stress a point in the signing of the singer's contract in which you are led to think that her manager and agent are about to "double-cross" her, but nothing happens. Again, later in the story the mother completely drops out of the picture. This is thoroughly plausible, but seems to leave things unfinished. The actual production is all the story requires and consists mainly of the regulation studio sets.
The star has a good dramatic role and he is usually convincing, but occasionally he acts with over-deliberation. Wonder when he will stop blacking his eyes so? It looks very poorly on the screen. Alice Fleming makes a good deal of the faithless wife and Evelyn Greely plays well in a short emotional sequence.
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