Sally of the Sawdust 1925

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Griffith stresses the story's melodrama, making Fields an unusually sentimental figure, though the star still manages to showcase some of his juggling routines and even kick a dog. Read more

TIME Magazine: Just about the most amusing comedy that you will recall this year. Read more

Time Out: Its interest would be no more than historical were it not also the movie that launched WC Fields. His show-stopping performance as Eustace McGargle, conman and sideshow juggler, contains the seeds of all his later glories. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: D.W. Griffith is down to common picture making in this one. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Sally is minor Griffith, but it demonstrates that, whatever the ostensible genre, he remained (and, pace Steven Spielberg, remains) the master manipulator of human emotion. Read more