It is hard to tell in this two-part picture whether the title applies to the man who steals the pretty wife of the Italian peasant, or to the Italian who, in America, finds and kills him. Hazel Buckam plays the woman; Robert Leonard the detective who, after the murder, tracks down the Italian (Lloyd Ingraham) who confesses to him and then dies not convincingly. The story isn't dramatic after the opening scenes and there is too little suspense. Perhaps to have made all its steps clear would have shown its outcome at once and destroyed all suspense, but the fact that much of it is blind, not as in the early scenes with mystery, but with confusion, also keeps suspense from it. It is well acted, has much humanity in lesser things that is charming, and its many artistic scenes are well photographed, but it is not a big offering. - The Moving Picture World, June 27, 1914
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