The Warrant (1911) User Reviews

Stories very similar to this have been done before many times

[deickemeyer · 15 March 2016]

There is an interesting human story in this western picture of ranch life, barroom life and a shooting incident, but stories very similar to this have been done before many times and sometimes better done. In this case the hard-drinking husband of the heroine, in a barroom fight, shoots a stranger and his wife's foster father, the sheriff, persuades him to come back and stand trial rather than be lynched, perhaps. At the end it is proved that the man who was shot is wanted, dead or alive, which seems to beg the question a little. In this picture we see the heroine first as a child, then as sweet sixteen, then as a grown woman. She seems to be the only one who shows growth in the picture. - The Moving Picture World, July 29, 1911