With Lillian Gish as the Angel, this two-part picture works up a situation with sharp, bold strokes that lay the whole inner meaning of it all quite bare to us. But then in the development one feels a distinct lessening of clearness and truth of meaning. The building up is far more convincing than the development and the padding is almost all in the second reel. The people of the Western village call Lillian "the Angel," because she has tended them in their troubles like one, and later, when the stranger comes and takes her away from the sheriff, a fiancé whom she really doesn't love, they refuse to take kindly to him. How this gets him into danger and how the magnanimous sheriff and the angel save him make an acceptable offering. The staging, acting and camera work are all good. - The Moving Picture World, July 18, 1914
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