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This is the second D'Annuncio play to be pictured by the Ambrosio people. In both cases the closely knit quality of the Italian poet's scenarios is apparent, yet the story of the former, "Jario's Daughter," was more interesting. This picture deals with little else but murder and suicide; but the lighting and settings are well chosen and the effect is an eerie, literary atmosphere that is very commendable. A little bag of squirming, poisonous aspics is brought into the palace of the hero of the picture by his sister. She intends to murder a woman with whom her brother is infatuated and has been invited to do this deed by her mother's ghost who has asked vengeance on her murderess. She finds the woman dead, killed by the man. The horror produced by the bag of snakes is tremendous. - The Moving Picture World, January 13, 1912