Cheapie melodrama made by Lubin early in his career - Otto Kruger is a man who gets out of prison after fifteen years and finds love with a woman who looks after a kid and the woman winds up in prison too.
The kid actor isn't bad - Lubin was a decent director of children from the get go. I did watch it and think "why was this made? Was there an audience for this? Were Kruger and Martha Sleeper really big stars?"
The film probably would have been better told from Sleeper's point of view - the governess who falls for a mystery man with a Secret, who works for a horrible woman who blames Sleeper for things she didn't do.
It's low budget but not agonisingly so. Not a hidden classic or anything.
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