“John Ford's last major silent, this is a curious collection of various styles, with a nod to the pictorial expressionism brought to Fox from Germany by F.W. Murnau, and at the same time a look forward to the styles that Ford would employ on his much later Irish films The Quiet Man and The Informer. Basically a rather old-fashioned melodrama... its great pictorial beauty (the film is entirely studio-made) more than refutes Ford's frequent statements that films like this were ‘just a job of work' to him calling for no more than good workmanship.... Apart from Earle Fox - a wonderful villain of the old school, but whose facial mugging does rather stand out amidst the generally subtle underplaying of the rest of the cast... one especially notices the presence of John Wayne as an extra in some eight scenes...."