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This is a very interesting and acceptable picture of southern life of about 1870, when the night riders were active. The vagabond is, by his trousers, an ex-Confederate army officer. He is helped by some people who own a cotton plantation (a studio scene) and the editor of the local newspaper gives him a job. This editor distributes his own type. This part of the picture is very interesting, for there's an old-style hand press shown, and the usual interesting characters who were sure to be found in such offices, including the man who fought the war over again every time he got someone's attention. The fault of the picture is that we don't know positively enough that the night riders have anything against the heroine's father, for whom the vagabond sacrifices his life. The raid of the riders is very well conducted and the climax is led up to most effectively save only for the one defect just noticed. It is very well acted, especially by those who carried the character parts. The tinting and the photography were not quite up to the high Rex standards. And one is surprised that the Rex Company did not take advantage of the torch scenes to give us something out of the ordinary; it had a fine chance to do so. The torch scene as shown is not much above commonplace. - The Moving Picture World, July 29, 1911