Dustin Farnum and Winifred Kingston are a couple of poor Irish is to get married and have a cow. When Farnum reads that New York City has the finest police force in America, because it's all Irishmen, Farnum decides that's the place for him. So Miss Kingston sells her pig, Farnum borrows the rest, and it's off to the New World for him. It takes him half the movie to get on the force, and he promptly loses his job, when he refuses to accept pay-offs from women who wear kimonos for his boss.
Julia Crawford Ivers wrote and directed this movie, and it's pretty open and honest about police corruption in New York. Farnum winds up dealing with political bosses, crooked construction contractor. Miss Kingston isn't in the movie much, but her performance sets the tone, and Farnum's thoughts clearly are never far from her.
It's an extra on the new blu-ray/dvd from Kino that features THE INTRIGUE. Like the other extras, it's not in great shape; there's bubbling in the emulsion in several spots, and one of its reels is missing entirely; that's compensated for by titles that cover the gap. I's another good potboiler from the period.
