The Only Clue (1914) User Reviews

Likely to stick in the memory

[deickemeyer · 3 November 2018]

This clearly constructed picture of human fates develops to a new punch that is likely to stick in the memory for some time. It gives us a yarn without any particular moral, but it is clean. The "only clue" is a scar on the wrist of a young blacksmith who is innocent, but thought to be guilty of murder. He is "making good" in another city when some busybody writes to the police about him and a detective comes to investigate. The smith is at work at his forge, to which his wife, not knowingly, directs the detective. When the man learns what is wanted he burns off the scar in the forge fires and the "only clue" is destroyed. It is well put on and the acting is substantial, so that we can safely commend it as a good offering. - The Moving Picture World, July 18, 1914