Olaf—An Atom
1913 · 0h 17m · Drama, Fantasy
Skip it. This obscure silent-era melodrama about a grief-stricken drifter has all the hallmarks of worthy cinema—kindness, sacrifice, redemption—but the 5.8 IMDb score tells you it doesn't stick the landing. Life's too short to spend your evening with a forgotten film that even nostalgia can't save.
Plot
Broken by grief after his mother's death, Olaf becomes a wanderer. He is treated cruelly until he is given a meal by a woman at the homestead where she lives with her husband and baby. Olaf is able to return her kindness when he overhears a plot to rob the settlers of their home. He alerts the couple and delays the would-be thieves long enough for the husband to file a claim on his land. Olaf is injured by the claim jumpers but he recovers, alone and forgotten by those he has helped. He then moves aimlessly along.
