The Land of Death (1912) User Reviews

A story of ruthless doings pictured on the rolling plains

[deickemeyer · 15 January 2017]

A picture by the premier company, with our old friends, the big four (Miss Bush, Miss Von Trump, Mr. Kerrigan and that villain, Richardson) carrying the action. It tells a story in the well-known Flying A style, a story of ruthless doings pictured on the rolling plains with a far background of uplifted mountains. It shows us a most villainous gang of land grabbers who, to warn off all settlers, wipe out every party who crosses their country. One settler, whom they think disposed of, manages to join a small party in a prairie schooner. The gang are chasing this. In the running fight and in the turning at bay by the water pool, every man and woman except hero and heroine in the party and also every man in the gang is killed. The last struggle is a hand to hand fight between Kerrigan and Richardson which the heroine with a knife decides. The photography is not always clear; the film stock seems to be poor. - The Moving Picture World, August 24, 1912