The chase story and the love story will never grow trite so long as the first is ridden fairly and the second is acted sincerely. The trouble nearly always is that the first is very seldom ridden with fair play and no faking and the second very seldom rings true. This picture is a combination of both. The Vitagraph Western players are competent and while in this instance, they lacked a first class scenario, their acting has done much to redeem it. Mary Charleson and Robert Burns hold up the love story well. At the climax, the heroine rides against time and difficulties to save the hero from being unjustly lynched and then follows the chase of the villain, all of which is done in a sportsmanlike manner to please a fair-play loving audience and consequently is effective, in other words, dramatic. Charles Bennet and Anne Schaefer plays the girl's parents. "Eagle Eye" plays the desperate Mexican and does a fine fall. W.H. Durham wrote the script which R.S. Sturgeon has skillfully produced. It's a very fair, not a big offering. - The Moving Picture World, January 18, 1913
Review of A Bit of Blue Ribbon
