The Open Road

A good story with dramatic suspense and what is most delightful in such a story, unforced and spontaneous humor. It makes a first-class two-part feature offering, and is certainly among Producer Oscar Apfel's best work. The script is by Forrest Halsey, who has given a number of fine stories to Reliance releases. One of the good points in the story is that while the main thread on which the dramatic quality of the picture hangs is straight and clear, the episodes that are strung upon it are as unexpected and as freshly interesting as unexplored country. The characterization is clear-cut and natural, giving several commendable pictures of real people. Gertrude Robinson and Irving Cummings taking the two leads, with Ralph Lewis, as the latter's father, a fine old gentleman. Others too deserve commendation. It surely is a picture that will be liked and remembered. The camera work is fine; that first dream picture when the tramp, pictures "the open road" is a happy stroke of genius. - The Moving Picture World, February 1, 1913