An ex-convict tries to make his way in the world honestly, but every gate is barred to him.
It's a heavy-handed movie to the modern, middle-class eye, but a real problem that persists and grows ever more prominent every year. It's told in bleak imagery. Most people think that early movies are cheap, slapstick comedies or actualities, brief bits of the real world which offer us the commonplaces of a vanished world. Yet the audience for these early movies was lower class, and the nickel they spent for a program of movies was real money. Like everyone, they wanted to see problems they encountered, that meant something to them, and this one certainly does.
It's a heavy-handed movie to the modern, middle-class eye, but a real problem that persists and grows ever more prominent every year. It's told in bleak imagery. Most people think that early movies are cheap, slapstick comedies or actualities, brief bits of the real world which offer us the commonplaces of a vanished world. Yet the audience for these early movies was lower class, and the nickel they spent for a program of movies was real money. Like everyone, they wanted to see problems they encountered, that meant something to them, and this one certainly does.