User Reviews

The first impression one gets of this film is pleasure in its fine photographs of wild places. The leaders, written in truly poetical language, give us promise that we will see the strange, uncanny, unreal maid of the Pass, who lures men on to destruction with gold nuggets thrown down from the rocky heights. Perhaps she symbolizes the lure of the treasure mountains. "Death stands above me, whispering low," she sings. At her first appearance in the picture, being but a mortal maid with whom we are well acquainted, the effect is not very uncanny, but, so well is the locality chosen, and so skilfully is the action woven to subdue us to the producer's idea, and also so well is it acted, that she soon takes on not a little dreadfulness. This weird part is played very well by Miss Von Trump. Mr. Kerrigan and Mr. Richardson support her. It is distinctly out of the beaten track and seems to us very good entertainment. - The Moving Picture World, May 18, 1912