"Most of the major prestige directors from the silent period preferred to wait until the technical bugs had been ironed out of the new talkies before taking the plunge, and thus many early talkies (this one went into release in April of 1929) were handed over to the studio's hack directors as literal experiments, to see what could be done to exploit sound. The films usually weren't important enough to create massive losses if they failed, and certainly their relatively unknown directors had no critical reputations to lose. Out of this rationale came some surprisingly inventive movies. Thru Different Eyes was a Rashomon-like mystery in which a murder is examined from different viewpoints. Unfortunately, the sound version has been lost, and all that survives is this fully-titled silent version. The full impact of the experimenting with sound is thereby minimized, but enough signs are there for a lively imagination to fill in the gaps." William K. Everson