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Three of the Rex players have produced in this film a drama which will be differently viewed by different audiences. In the larger towns and cities nothing out of the way will be seen. In the most conservative portions of the country fault will be found with certain attitudes assumed by the woman in her diverting dance and in the freedom which the bandit takes with her at different times. The substance of the story is that the woman is left by her lover in the shelter of an old castle during a storm while he goes on for means to bring her safely home. The castle is the abode of a bandit who returns before the lover. He discovers the woman's rich jewels and demands them, and she, to save her jewels, dances and flirts with him, seeking to distract his mind until her lover arrives, and works him up to a frenzy of passion. Her principal aim was to secure the dagger which he carries in his belt. After allowing him to make love to her and after a very suggestive dance with him she succeeds in securing the dagger and strikes at him, but misses, only cutting his arm. Infuriated, he attempts to rush upon her and seize her, but at this juncture a stroke of lightning kills him and the lover appears. Complaint will be made that some of the poses of the woman are almost indecent. For example, where she allows him to take off her shoe, holding her foot almost as high as his head when he is doing it. Again, the same criticism will apply when she insists upon his putting it on. - The Moving Picture World, October 7, 1911