The Smuggler's Daughter
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A notable film of the week
Stories of the sea are always popular with moving picture audiences if they are well and naturally told. Who amongst has not pored over an exciting narrative of smuggling life? In olden times the romance of maritime life drew half its inspiration from the deeds of dare and do which centered about the smuggler's cave. This is one of the best pictures which Mr. Lubin has produced. We emphasize the word picture. He places the scene of the story on a very rocky coast with the waves beating and lashing themselves into clouds of spray. The eyes are delighted with these very fine photographs of coast characteristics. The story is not unduly spun out, it is clear and intelligible, and it certainly pleased the audience before whom we saw it shown. On these grounds, therefore, we consider it entitled to mention as a notable film of the week. Photographically speaking the picture is, on the whole, excellent. Its tones and tints are strikingly good. We will risk being termed hypercritical, however, in pointing out that Mr. Lubin's assistants might have sent out this beautiful picture with fewer light and dark spots on it. Those are the technical drawbacks on the picture. But still it is a minor matter. The point we want to bring home to Mr. Lubin is this, that sea pictures of this quality are welcome as an occasional relief to the usual run of subjects. Smuggling is by no means dead around these coasts, and the devotion of a daughter to her father is a very pretty theme to handle. - The Moving Picture World, May 29, 1909
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- Sep 20, 2014
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