• Warning: Spoilers
    The Grapevine DVD presents the full-length movie as originally released to theatres in 1920. It runs 66 minutes. But that's not good news. At 50 minutes, the movie may well be tolerably entertaining, but at 66 it comes across as a dull and distinctly dreary affair, dominated by (1) a lack-luster Jack Pickford who fails to capitalize on his initial welcome and becomes dead boring about two-thirds of the way through, and (2) Lionel Belmore, our favorite inn-keeper, who distinctly lacks the charisma to play a big industrialist -- particularly one so inadequately and unconvincingly drawn as Mark Bullway. True, the support characters, led by goody-two-shoes Priscilla Bonner and vampish Shannon Day, attempt to put up a good fight, but they are defeated by director Alfred E. Green who seems determined to focus the lion's share of audience attention on sulky Jack Pickford and beefy, bombastic Belmore. Both of them, alas, quickly wear out their initial promise and turn into damp squibs.