"Despite its title, this adaptation of a barnstorming old 1902 melodrama is actually more Jack London than mint juleps. Reginald Denny, framed and disgraced, is shanghaied, returning after many years to win the race of the title and save the homestead. These rich little Universal programmers from the early twenties are very much of an endangered species--this is the only copy we've come across of this particular subject in some thirty years--and they're still solidly satisfying pictures." William K. Everson