Review of An Outcast Among Outcasts

A good melodramatic picture with strongly worked-out and very interesting contrasts. The picture's chief interest comes from the placing of the four yeggmen hobos beside the "blanket stiff," or tramp, who carries his blanket, the showing of the hobos' attitude toward him, and the logical development of the denouement from it. The blanket stiff is made a semi-cripple. This subtlety intensifies the distinction between him and the yeggs. Another strengthening contrast is in making the heroine's character, in this picture, whose chief purpose is to draw a rough and harsh experience, that of a sweet, unspoiled and very lovable girl and with all such a girl's helplessness. Her lover is skillfully drawn also, and sharply distinguished. The story is a little complicated by minor threads; but works out to clear and very effective climax. The photography is not up to Biograph standard. - The Moving Picture World, June 15, 1912