Still-powerful film
An imdb 6.5 rating? Wow. The age of the film, it's choppiness, sentimentality, and melodramatic storyline, are givens. Someday someone will look back on Avatar or Inception and note how dated the fx in them are! This film has as strong a feel for the old Bowery (where some of it was filmed) as any film, and its theme of environment shaping people packs a wallop. I've been watching quite a few silents lately, and for that decade, the teens, this is almost as good as it gets. Raul Walsh was hitting on just about all cylinders from the get-go.
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