Writer-producer Thomas H. Ince was - along with D. W. Griffith, Maurice Tourneur, and Cecil B. DeMille - one of the key figures of the American cinema during the years before Hollywood was fully established. For this moving saga of the immigrant experience of the 1910s, Ince hired the Winnipeg-born, Scotland-raised director Reginald Barker. The fluidity and psychological acuity of the framing, camera movement, and editing are eloquently complemented by the expressive close-ups of lead actor George Beban. Restored by the Library of Congress. Score by Ben Model.