I'm usually a sucker for old silent movies, but this might be the WORST I've ever see. Correction- it IS the worst.
Movie "hero" begins life as a sad sack; two hours later, at movie's end (or ten years in the picture) he's STILL the same sad sack. Can never earn a decent living, lives in tiny tenement with wife and kids at the beginning, and STILL lives in the same tenement when movie ends, having never left it.
Picture ends with "sad sack" still sad, without money or decent employment. A real depressant, causing viewers to think movie was a waste of two hours and ten cents (Isn't that what flicks cost in the 1920s?).
Movie was put on shelf for a year in fear of releasing it; unfortunately, in 1929, they did. Dreadful.
Movie "hero" begins life as a sad sack; two hours later, at movie's end (or ten years in the picture) he's STILL the same sad sack. Can never earn a decent living, lives in tiny tenement with wife and kids at the beginning, and STILL lives in the same tenement when movie ends, having never left it.
Picture ends with "sad sack" still sad, without money or decent employment. A real depressant, causing viewers to think movie was a waste of two hours and ten cents (Isn't that what flicks cost in the 1920s?).
Movie was put on shelf for a year in fear of releasing it; unfortunately, in 1929, they did. Dreadful.