The Marked Time-Table (1910) User Reviews

Maybe the producer had no intention of sermonizing, but he did

[deickemeyer · 7 July 2015]

A moral lesson for parents is boldly proclaimed in this picture. Sometimes the maternal tenderness of a mother leads her into indiscretions regarding her son, and in this instance that appears to be the source of the difficulties which befall the young man. But when he robs his father a change occurs and he departs to begin anew elsewhere. The picture itself is not so powerful, perhaps, as what it suggests; but it is this subtle influence, this feeling that one has known similar cases that makes it even more dramatic than it might otherwise be. Maybe the producer had no intention of sermonizing, but he did. nevertheless, and he could scarcely have selected a more appealing subject. - The Moving Picture World, July 9, 1910