The Evening Bell (1911) User Reviews

Not up to the usual Itala standard

[deickemeyer · 2 April 2016]

The photography in this picture is not up to the usual Itala standard; it spoiled the effect of some of the pictures. It is well acted. The hero, as a child, helps his father ring the Angelus bells and when he has grown to be a man, while burglarizing a neighboring house, he hears the bells his old father is ringing alone and repents. It is shown that the father has asked the Virgin to turn his son from evil paths. One of the picture's shortcomings is that burglars usually work at midnight, while the evening bells ring earlier. Also the evil men are shown breaking into the house and this itself will forbid the pictures being shown in some cities. - The Moving Picture World, August 19, 1911