Cinema: The New Pictures May 5, 1923

Within the Law. A miracle has come to pass. Within the Law has been adapted for the screen minus the emendations and Hollywood inspirations usually deemed necessary to cinematize a play or story. The result is exactly what intelligent people (a pitifully meagre group when one reflects that 4,000,000 attend pictures daily in America) have so long prophesied: Within the Law is not only consistently interesting, but it is convincing. This may, but probably will not, prove to a few of the commercial directors that it is actually profitable to leave the...

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