Sealed Orders (I) (1914) User Reviews

Works up into a fierce gun-fighting episode

[deickemeyer · 18 June 2018]

This two-reel number, with Warren Kerrigan in the lead, is taken from a well-known short story by Eugene Manlove Rhodes. Like the story, it opens in a desultory way, and works up into a fierce gun-fighting episode in a fast house where a young girl has been lured. Cleo Madison appears as the girl. Kerrigan plays the part of Crooknose Evans. The story has a rough, western setting and is a good one of its particular type. Numerous scenes are shown in a gambling house and there is a chase across the roof tops to the house where the shooting occurs. A dramatic story of crook life. - The Moving Picture World, March 28, 1914

Not Commercially Viable

[Single-Black-Male · 5 February 2004]

There was no script to this film. Basically, the director just sat down with the cast and they all made suggestions. The inferior plot made it a chore to watch, amounting to a very poor film. It could have done with a script conference before principal photography.