Tom Mix gets to show off his horse-riding skills in a race-against-time western in which he plays a Pony Express rider tasked with delivering evidence that will reprieve a man about to be found guilty of murder. Mix's skills are certainly impressive, but he presumably brought more than just that to the screen later in his career. Some nice exterior shots boost an otherwise ordinary film.
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The pony express man rides remarkably well
deickemeyer27 March 2016
When the faces and individualities of the players in a moving picture are obscured by shadows, there is often much confusion in the spectator's mind. Because the faces in the first two or three scenes of this picture could not be clearly distinguished by this reviewer, he wasn't sure which of the two men who quarreled in the hut was the more acceptable to the girl on horseback whom it was plain both loved. The producer of the picture seems to have depended for interest largely on the bare dramatic struggle, the ride against time of the pony express rider to bring to the court the evidence that the hero is innocent. He has not shown us this hero in any significant action; we do not know what kind of a man he is. The jury believes that he shot the man who accidentally killed himself. This well-photographed jury of twelve good and true Westerners seems to have been very well chosen. They all look prosperous. Two are quick to take offense in an argument and are as quick to make up when they see their mistake. The pony express man rides remarkably well; he knows horses, wild and tame, and his ride with the dead man's last letter, ends in an exciting jump, horse and all, into the court room. One may ask whether juries in the West are apt to be formal. This jury had to retire again before it could change its verdict. It's an acceptable picture. - The Moving Picture World, August 12, 1911
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