Saving the Special

A railroad melodrama which seems designed more to show well-contrasted characters than to give a thrill at the rescue of the train. These characters are very well acted; they are human beings; and some of them arc very amusing. The foiling of the villain, who because he couldn't wreck the engineer's home tries to wreck his train, is not so exciting as is usual in the best melodramas, those whose sole purpose is to get the thrill across and nothing else. This picture merely didn't pay so much attention to the bringing of the warning of the villain's obstruction laid on the track, or to the race of the engineer's wife to remove it in time, as it did to the reckless depths of this villain's villainy and to the trap into which it led him. It is, however, partly because of this departure from the well-worn formula, a very interesting picture. - The Moving Picture World, December 16, 1911