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A reviewer for the publication Bright Sights wrote that the film had a powerfully downbeat conclusion with a social message :" Projecting overwhelming grief, Beban reveals some hefty acting chops, and The Italian certainly gets its liberal point across, a model of how American movies dress social consciousness in the garb of melodrama.

Even here, in its infancy, feature film was eager to pick up the call for social reform that sounded out in urban America before the First World War.