A New Picture

The Wanderer. Famous Players were so abundantly repayed for their scriptural investment in The Ten Commandments that they have attempted to launch a sister ship. This time they have taken the story of the Prodigal Son from the Bible and trapped it out with modern applications, allegory and thousands of actors. The attempt seems a trifling copy of the earlier achievement which had the longest run of any picture ever flickering across a Manhattan screen.

There is so much, such staggering bad taste throughout the movies that it is not surprising that they could take such a fundamental narrative and make it seem just another movie plot. Ernest Torrence and the newcomer Greta Nissen give good enough performances. There is no end of money spent and mass effects achieved. Yet, as one reviewer suggested, there is a limit to the adaptability of the Bible to snappy stories.