22-year-old Mae Marsh tries to steal Mary Pickford's thunder by playing an orphan who, at the start of this drama, is presumably supposed to be 12 or 13 at the most. She at least refrains from pulling the childlike faces that Pickford's fans found so appealing back then, and is actually quite appealing in the part. The story is slight, though, and the plot feels as if it has been padded out in order to achieve a feature-length running time, switching from Marsh's poor treatment by her fellow orphans to a sort-of murder-mystery once she finds a home. Directed by Lloyd Ingraham from a story by D. W. Griffith.
Review of Hoodoo Ann
