No bad scenes, no great scenes. Perfectly middling tear-jerker.

The title character, played by Wallace Beery, is an alcoholic swine and a derelict father to a little pie-faced loud-mouth hoodlum. Truth be told, these two annoying sewer peasants probably deserve each other. Their melodramatic tale plays out rather predictably, aping tear-jerking scenes from better fare like The Kid and defying just how much story can be squeezed from the same desiccated lemon of a script. Still, it's perfectly watchable if you're in the right mood for this sort of shit.

Yah, it jerks some tears...