Something to Think About

 "Something to Think About" 1920 directed by Cecil B. DeMille and written by Jeanie Macpherson for Paramount Pictures.

Elliott Dexter, Gloria Swanson, Monte Blue, Theodore Roberts, Claire McDowell, Mickey Moore, Julia Faye, Jim Mason.

"Wealthy cripple Markley finances the education of blacksmith's daughter Ruth. When she returns to their small town, he asks to marry her, but she runs off with city worker Jim Dirk who is then killed in a subway accident. Markley offers to marry her in name only to protect her new son."

Overall, good performances except McDowell's over the top biblical musings. Being in an age where referring to anyone as a "cripple" is insensitive and politically incorrect and being taken back to 1920 when it was the commonly used expression is a bit jarring. It's easy to see why this is not a well-known collaboration between DeMille and Swanson with "Male and Female", "Don't Change Your Husband", "Why Change Your Wife?", and "The Affairs of Anatol" being superior. Here the intertitles are too philosophical and religious and longwinded. They distract from the story.