The Redemption of Slivers (1912) User Reviews

Fails to get the grip that persuades us that the story is truthful

[deickemeyer · 19 February 2017]

A picture with a situation to please a large number of patrons, in that it shows a man wholly submerged breaking through all difficulties and making a man of himself. It is not convincingly shown and fails to get the grip that persuades us that the story is truthful. The story is clear and in part well acted. The leading role, "Slivers," fits E.H. Calvert very well. A younger man would have been better; but he shows a regeneration of a tough character very well. Wm. Bailey's farmer is decidedly weak. Beverly Bayne as the farmer's daughter and Eleanor Blanchard do excellently as do Howard Missimer and John Steppling as rural characters. Frank Dayton is a policeman; Chas. Hitchcock, a brakeman, and Dolores Cassinelli, Evebelle Prout and Mildred Weston have small parts. - The Moving Picture World, October 19, 1912