It's impossible to believe that Julia Hurley (whose final film this is) was only 79 when she died on June 4, 1927. Either someone has got Julia's age wrong or some uncredited genius is the greatest make-up artist who ever worked in Hollywood. One wonders why this same genius couldn't work in reverse and make both Constance Bennett (who looks at least four or five years older than her official 21 or 22) and Owen Moore (who seems to be his real life age of 42) seem as young and virile as they are supposed to be in the plot. Evangeline Russell made only nine movies – and in at least four of them (including this one) she played an Indian maiden. The rest of the players should not detain us as we turn our attention to the contrived plot which Julia Hurley – thanks to her obvious old age (she looks at least 100 or 103 in the movie) – manages to make fairly convincing. To my surprise, director George Terwilliger, whom I'd never heard of before, made 75 movies as a writer and no less than 81 as a director, though most of them were shorts. His direction here is competent but nothing special. At least he keeps the plot boiling – if not rapidly, at least satisfactorily – for 73 minutes (not 55) in Grapevine Video's reasonably engaging DVD.
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