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In backgrounds that will pass very well for the Philippines, this two-reel story is melodramatic and not very convincing. It has many good points beside the wild and tangled forest in which it was taken. The situation where the lieutenant, who has been left by his jealous captain to die in quicksands and who, escaping from the Filipinos who had rescued him from the sands and held him in captivity, finds the captain wandering mad in the wild and forgives him, is both new and interesting. The acting is not at all times strong and in the handling there is a good deal of conventional and palpably unreal work. Besides, the quicksands seem rather sticky and hard to get down into. Yet there are enough fine moments (the Filipino village, the handling of the American soldiers, and some of the love making) to give the offering plenty of interest. The photography is fair. - The Moving Picture World, June 27, 1914