With acting that is either completely underplayed or totally overplayed, bad photography, editing and a script that looks like it was pieced together by fragments of other scripts, this indeed deserves its reputation as a poverty row disaster. Actors all they look like they are staring at cue cards, know their lines and only know how to Bellow them, or were half-asleep when the filming was in progress. A few scenes look like they were inserted from public domain footage, mostly the shootout scene towards the end.
For whatever it's worth, this is a story of two brothers, Lloyd Hughes and William Janney, with Hughes believed to be dead after fighting during World War One. The opening scene has Hughes comforting Janney as a child over a storm with a silly story about a white knight leading the battle through the storm, but that doesn't stop Janney from being kicked out of the air corpse 20 years later. Janney ends up on the ranch of his girlfriend, Rosalind Keith, where he finds Hughes alive and living under assumed name as a government agent. There, the two brothers deal with a gang of oil thieves, but their reunion isn't a smooth one.
Hughes sleepwalks his way through his performance, while Jason Robards Sr. (Father of the two-time Oscar winner) bellows every line that he is given. Janney and Keith keep looking off to the side or towards the camera for obvious cues. others in the cast are given such one-dimensional parts that they can only sneer their lines perhaps in disgust over the hideousness of their parts. This is poverty row at its worst, and with the public domain print being in pretty bad condition, I can't imagine anybody outside the most arduous of movie fans, attempting to get through it. At only an hour, it's not a disastrous waste of time, but it's an hour I probably won't waste in re-watching it again.
For whatever it's worth, this is a story of two brothers, Lloyd Hughes and William Janney, with Hughes believed to be dead after fighting during World War One. The opening scene has Hughes comforting Janney as a child over a storm with a silly story about a white knight leading the battle through the storm, but that doesn't stop Janney from being kicked out of the air corpse 20 years later. Janney ends up on the ranch of his girlfriend, Rosalind Keith, where he finds Hughes alive and living under assumed name as a government agent. There, the two brothers deal with a gang of oil thieves, but their reunion isn't a smooth one.
Hughes sleepwalks his way through his performance, while Jason Robards Sr. (Father of the two-time Oscar winner) bellows every line that he is given. Janney and Keith keep looking off to the side or towards the camera for obvious cues. others in the cast are given such one-dimensional parts that they can only sneer their lines perhaps in disgust over the hideousness of their parts. This is poverty row at its worst, and with the public domain print being in pretty bad condition, I can't imagine anybody outside the most arduous of movie fans, attempting to get through it. At only an hour, it's not a disastrous waste of time, but it's an hour I probably won't waste in re-watching it again.