Tempted by Necessity (1912) User Reviews

Now and then a bit stilted

[deickemeyer · 4 March 2017]

Cris Lane has written a very dramatic picture with his hero in the clerk who is discharged for losing money and who is tempted, by the sad plight to which his family is reduced, to help the very man, unrecognized of course, who had robbed him, to rob a pay train. He comes to his senses in time and his young wife has a share in the usual climax. The special value that this picture has comes from the careful filling in, the general atmosphere and the realism of the picture. It is made more convincing than usual. If the acting and the handling of the characters is, now and then, a bit stilted, the story is, on the whole, very good and interesting; it should be a success. Carl Winterhoff plays the man; Winnifred Grenwood, his wife. Lem Parker, the producer of the picture, plays his employer and Neal M. Barns, the scoundrel called Tracy. - The Moving Picture World, November 9, 1912