The Cowpuncher's Glove (1910) User Reviews

Motion pictures are more interesting when they adhere closely to the probabilities

[deickemeyer · 8 October 2015]

A Western story conveying an impression of the breezy West, with its peculiar and vigorous types of humanity. While the story is strange, nothing about it seems improbable except the procuring of the keys to the jail in which the prisoner was held awaiting lynching. Perhaps it would not do to say that this could not be done, yet it does seem quite out of the usual experiences and is difficult to believe. A story may, perhaps, be accepted as something based upon a real or a possible experience, and motion pictures are more interesting when they adhere closely to the probabilities in all instances. Aside from this one point the picture is pleasing. The acting, the backgrounds and the spirit is Western enough, and all are drawn closely to fact. The romantic turn given in the last part of the film introducing the glove as the arbiter of a dispute that leads to a fight on a swaying bridge over a yawning chasm, supplies the required dramatic interest. - The Moving Picture World, December 17, 1910