"The picture is spoken of as a story that enters a family of English blue blood, reveals their luxuries, snobberies, whims and their selfish class distinction. It takes them on a cruise with their servants, wrecks them on the rocks, flings them, mistress and maid, lord and butler into the wilds of an untamed tropical island. What happens after has been woven into one of the most interesting stories that has ever been filmed." - Review section, Staff, "'Male and Female' Is Big Film Story," Riverside Daily Press, Riverside, California, Monday 22 December 1919, Volume XXXIV, Number 303, page 7.
—C. Mark Sublette