The Parasites (1914) watch online HD

M.O. Penn gives in this two-reel offering an emotional portrayal of a father who has sent his only son away with the stern intention of making him brace up and be something, and who has heard that he is dead. This is the best thing the picture has, though the story is fairly novel, is touched with a sense of the romantic and interests, in spite of its great improbability. It has been carefully produced and its scenes, taking them one by one, or in single groups, are strong. The plot, which makes us see how, after the son, the father is fleeced by the same woman who is "shown up" in the last act by the son's unexpected return, fails to make the two stories dramatically one whole. The photography is of high order and makes some lovely pictures. - The Moving Picture World, March 7, 1914