The Heart of John Barlow (1911) watch online HD

John Barlow is the captain of a fishing schooner and this film pictures him as acting bravely and wisely when he discovers, by a note he chances to pick up from the sitting room floor, that his wife is about to elope with a young merchant of the village. The players act with a good deal of naturalness and the story, on the whole, is interesting and fairly strong. John's making the merchant come with him to the house to show him the two sleeping children is not shown convincingly. It is easy to see why it was done. In a stage drama John's words to the scamp would have got hold of the situation in something like the same way. The first method might be very effective; the second method, showing the children's part in the situation by picture, in this way is strained. The total effect of the picture is good; it is more than merely satisfactory, but the mind accepts and likes it with reservations. It stands high among the films of a not very distinguished week. - The Moving Picture World, September 23, 1911