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Review — To be sent to newspapers for use the day after the first showing of THE GUILTY MAN”
A new picture with an old idea done, over in a new way came to town yesterday when the photoplay "The Guilty Man" was presented at
the Theatre for the first time. This is the melodrama
which Ruth Helen Davis fashioned some time ago from the French "L 'Homme Coupable," of Francois Coppee^ and which later went through the more experienced hands of the late Charles Klein. Directed by Irvin V. Willat, under the supervision of Thomas H. Ince, "The Guilty Man" is one of the most exquisitely finished of recent photoplays, with each detail brought out and rounded off with the utmost care and attention.
Gloria Hope, as the daughter, and Vivian Reed, as the wronged mother, have drawn their characters with the artistic touches of genius, while the rest of the cast, including such well known players as William Garwood, J. P. Lockney, Charles French, Hayward Mack and others have contributed not a little to the success of the whole .
In a broad sense the motif of "The Guilty Man" has to do with the awakening conscience in a human soul, the soul of a man who has done a woman the greatest wrong that can be done her. The hypothetical question confronting the audience is this: if a woman, deserted by the man she trusted, brings forth a daughter into an environment of evil, and the daughter, as the result of her surroundings, commits a crime, who is to blame?
The answer is the title of the production "The Guilty Man." From the first part of the first reel, which shows the idyllic love affair of Marie Dubois and Claude Lescuyer, the promising young lawyer, the interest is held at the highest, and until the last scene flickers across the screen, there is not a drop in the tension .
Having been deserted by the father of her child, Marie marries Flambon, a cafe proprietor, narrow souled and cruelly indifferent to the finer instincts of his wife. The turning point comes when he tries to marry the child, hardly grown to womanhood, to a worthless brute of a man to whom he happens to owe some money, and the strength of the two women, already overburdened, gives way.
It is then that Marie turns on her husband, and then that Claudine, the daughter, to save her mother's life, fires the shot which kills her stepfather. At the trial which shortly follows, the prosecuting attorney for the state is no other than her own father. These are only a few of the strongest situations in "The Guilty Man," which abounds in thrills from start to finish.
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