User Reviews

Sometimes one feels as though these oft told stories of rough life and adventure take on a fresh interest when reproduced by Selig. His players thoroughly understand making a story of this sort so real that the characters live before one. And for a time the screen seems to be peopled with the persons who are only represented. The feud is well understood. There is a love story connected with this one and through that love story the older members of the two families, really the only ones left, are finally reunited and made friends for what is left of their natural life. There is a certain degree of ruggedness of character depicted in this picture, yet it must be admitted that the whole theory of the feud is so repugnant to the sane mind that the picture fascinates more by its horror than by any interest in the actual subject. These pictures are, in a degree, educational, in that they represent powerfully the feelings which may be engendered between two families that will last as long as there are two descendants or relatives to keep the feud alive. One or the other must be annihilated. This picture ends happier, but it is to be feared that it is scarcely representative of the actual feuds. Technically it is good and there is no fault with the acting. Both combined make an interesting film. - The Moving Picture World, December 25, 1909