A little-known vehicle for the great silent screen actress Lillian
Gish, this is an entertaining pageant, interspersing slightly banal
romantic scenes with sudden, violent set pieces as it narrates a love
story against the background of clan rivalry in Scotland. The climax,
especially, is shot and edited with a blistering intensity as it
intercuts the Glencoe Massacre with Gish racing to light a beacon fire.
That chase is worthy of Sjöström's The Wind in its visual
force, and it finally subsides into a decorative coda shot in two-strip
Technicolor.
