The Rancher's Failing (1913) User Reviews

Enough freshness to keep the final outcome hidden

[deickemeyer · 13 November 2017]

The failing referred to is drink. But the rancher (Al W. Filson) is rich and has a pretty daughter (Camille Astor) who is being courted by a scoundrelly schemer (Herbert Rawlinson). Hobart Bosworth is the ranch foreman and the story's hero. In the development of the situation there is enough freshness to keep the final outcome hidden, and so it holds well. There are no especial beauties of background or acting in it, although the photography is fair. - The Moving Picture World, September 20, 1913