 Film critic Dave Kehr noted in a 2007 The New York Times article that , along with Why Mr. Nation Wants a Divorce , the film now seems dated due to the fact that " the evil influence of liquor is no longer the burning question it was " . Critic Alan Scherstuhl wrote in Village Voice that the film worked as " evidence that the first things our visual mass @-@ media culture sold to its audience were comic licentiousness — and the impulse to clean such filth up . " 
