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...village of Zuchnow, was a harmless kind of fellow, poor like the rest of his neighbors, but with a good wife, two sons and a daughter. Everything went as well as could be expected for Mendel until his last child, Menuchim, was born?a cripple, practically an idiot. When his mother carried the child to the wonder-working Rabbi he said: "Pain will make him wise, ugliness good, bitterness mild, and sickness strong!" But Menuchim went on being a cripple, practically an idiot...
There are several features in the film which may be singled out for appreciation. Some gypsy Russian singing and dancing forms an admirable interlude, and there is some fine photography of trees. The best characterization is that of the idiot Smerdyakov, played by Fritz Rasp...
Next day, Bruce's own mind almost unhinged, his Christian faith quite gone, he announced to the blind man his conversion to the Truth of Nature, said he would go out and preach under the trees against all churches. But Midland was spared this final apotheosis. That night an idiot boy set fire to the Methodist church, then hid in a barn. The boy's mother, frantic, thought he was still in the burning building. Bruce plunged in to save the idiot and went to glory in the flames...
...fifth, sixth, seventh time, coughed, gasped, spat out a bullet, sighed with relief. The bullet was smooth-polished after spending 15 years lodged in the roof of Sr. Rente's mouth, whence surgeons had dared not remove it. Long ago they predicted it would make Sr. Rente an idiot or a paralytic. He is not yet either...
Recalling that Sir Harry's impersonations include an idiot Scotch boy who drools into a kitchen bowl, and a Scotchman who constantly wipes his nose with his sleeve, and that Sir Harry's principal joke is still the one about stinginess, Critic Andrew Dewar Gibbs summed...