First-class as an offering to the public. It gives us a bit of real Spain, so far as one who has never been there can see, and we are shown a real bullfight as the setting for the climax of a love story. The actuality of all these things and the natural acting of the players who, being of Seville, are to the manner born, make it tremendously effective. There are elements of excitement that heighten the impression it makes. The marked enthusiasm of the throngs on bullfight day is one of these, and especially of the spectators during the fight. We can't deny that a bullfight is a brutal form of sport, but this picture of one didn't offend us at all. There is a horse killed, but it is not done brutally to make a picture. In this story, its brutality was not noticed by us, we were too deeply stirred. - The Moving Picture World, December 6, 1913
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