It is a two-reel special offering and it certainly compels our admiration for Romaine Fielding, author, producer and cast. He plays a double role, a sheriff and brother, two characters who look alike, but are different. It is a tragic picture of fear. People of strong imagination are apt. if they have Celtic or Gothic blood, to exploit the morbid in their art (both Poe and Hawthorne did) and because this realm of unrestrained emotions offers the easiest way to affect cruder minds, to bring them in touch with that strange sense of the infinite that we northern races have developed before all people. The upspring of Gothic arches is ours and also the plummet line into the shadows. With the latter belongs this offering. It is two reels of unrelieved horror. There were people in the audience who thought it was "great and wonderful"; but some thought it was "too terrible," and one man, we noticed turning away from it, refused to give us his opinion. It affected us unpleasantly. - The Moving Picture World, April 26, 1913
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