This is an absorbing two-reel number, featuring Van Dyke Brook as a policeman, who subsequently becomes a detective. Leo Delaney appears as the wayward son and Kate Price and Norma Talmadge are in the cast. This is a straight-away crook story, with good views of the gang's headquarters. The raid in the second reel is exciting and the substitution of the detective for Mike Ellis was done very convincingly. Realistic crook drama. - The Moving Picture World, January 24, 1914
Review of Officer John Donovan
