"Scars of Jealousy was one the last Ince productions before his mysterious death on the Hearst yacht the following year. It's also typical of Ince's ability to make the routine seem important. The prologue in pre-Revolutionary France really has very little to do with the plot, but it allows Ince to emulate Griffith and DeMille by mixing the old and the new and suggesting some significance thereby.... Once in the United States, the story takes on more familiar grounds: Southern honor, redemption, a last-minute rescue. But it keeps on the move, disposes of the smaller action (a runaway horse, a fight) early, and keeps the bigger action (a lynch mob, a forest fire) for the end, so that even while they aren't especially spectacular, they seem so by comparison. Locations are exceptionally well chosen too, and discourage suspicion that the film was shot wholly in the Hollywood area. It's a good-looking production all around, typical of the expertise of director Lambert Hillyer, Bill Hart's favorite director, and later a reliable sound era director too." William K. Everson