A Timely Rescue (1913) Online

A romance along rather conventional lines, but worked up with a good deal of commendable freshness, which makes it good entertainment. It was produced by Arthur Johnson, who plays in it a country lad who goes to the city and makes a success, leaving in the village a girl (Lottie Briscoe) whom he partially forgets. The girl's father dies, leaving her and her mother poor. They also come to the city, and there the girl has a hard time in making a living. Driven "by necessity," she comes to the brink of the easiest but evil path of making money, but is found by the man, who, by the way, is walking in under-world paths, and is "rescued." It is a picture with some fine scenes and has a good deal of interesting character drawing. Its story is clearly developed and has a measure of suspense. We don't wholly like the taste of it, but perhaps few people take notice of the inside significance of any picture, except where the producer sets it forth by intention; in this case he has tried to hide it. In the cast are Clara Lambert, the mother; Chas. Brandt, a manager; Ford Obeck, a foreman, and Anna Burmester, one of the girls in the dance hall. - The Moving Picture World, January 25, 1913