This is a very nice example of the way Walter Scott imagined and wrote about Scottish history, customs and ideals, and it's beautifully transformed to the screen, with (for the time) marvelous photographing of the Scottish Highland landscape, and quite decent (although at times a bit exaggerated) performances especially of Percy Marmont and pretty young Benita Hume.
It's all there just like in the books: the clan rivalries on the one hand, and the noble attitude towards strangers as well as the strict obeying to the code of honor on the other - and even in the end the generous act of reconciliation, which provides a perfect happy-end for the young lovers... Sir Walter would have liked it!
Yes, it may look pretty dated for today's standards, both optically and thematically; but real friends of silent cinema, or of Walter Scott's tales, won't mind...
It's all there just like in the books: the clan rivalries on the one hand, and the noble attitude towards strangers as well as the strict obeying to the code of honor on the other - and even in the end the generous act of reconciliation, which provides a perfect happy-end for the young lovers... Sir Walter would have liked it!
Yes, it may look pretty dated for today's standards, both optically and thematically; but real friends of silent cinema, or of Walter Scott's tales, won't mind...