Le poteau de la mort

The scenes of this three-part offering, made abroad, stand out in their clear-cut photography like life. The story, it holds interest all through, is very melodramatic and deals with a count who marries a rich manufacturer's daughter, the picture's heroine, merely for her money. The last reel is devoted to the dastardly schemes of him and his villainous sister to get rid of the girl. But she has a stanch friend in a man who had been her lover and is now, her father being dead, the head of the manufacturing business. All this makes a tale, and not a picture of real life; but it interests. "The Fatal Plunge" is taken by the villain and his sister who go over the embankment together in an automobile. The players are graceful and human, if not at all times entirely clear in the sign-language of their pantomime; but it must be acknowledged that they do manage to get information to the audience and the action is perfectly clear at all times. The atmosphere of the whole is fresh and one can safely commend it as a creditable offering. - The Moving Picture World, November 22, 1913