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Mr. Van Dyke Brooke adds, in this picture, another very human characterization to his already admirable list. The "Old Kent Road" seems to stand for a fairly well defined station in life. Lowly it is; there's little room for vanity on the Old Kent Road. The old man and his family, Kate Price plays the mother, Miss Clara Kimball Young plays Sue, Mr. Costello plays Sue's costermonger sweetheart, Harry, were well content until he gets a legacy. He and the family move out of the "Road," and their moving out is worth seeing. He now thinks Harry isn't good enough for Sue. All this, as well as the train of circumstances that brought him back again to the "Old Road" and to the old simplicity and contentment, are told in a delightfully, humanly droll way. It makes what may be called a good heart-comedy. It isn't played for the loud laughs. It is very good. We notice in the picture also, Chas. Eldridge, Robert Gaillord and Miss Adele de Garde. - The Moving Picture World, May 18, 1912