This is an exquisite film to look at, beautifully photographed outside among the tall trees of the great North where rivers flow and snowy mountains linger in the background. Theodore von Eltz comes across the young Lenore Ulric, unconscious and floating down the Loon River, and brings her to the local trading post where she recovers. When she comes to, she tells of how she came home one day to find her ailing father dead in their lone cabin in the woods, and left in search of a new life. Von Eltz and Ulric fall in love, but evidence that her father was murdered puts both in jeopardy.
The greatly edited print I found of this looks sensational, but lacks music. It is definitely a film that needs to be seen on a big screen so the viewer can take in the Northwest regions where it takes place. In the scene where Von Eltz discovers Ulric floating down the river, he jumps off his horse and off the cliff into the rugged waters below. The subtitles have indications that the main characters are speaking in English with a strong European dialect of some kind, so they appear to be filled with all sorts of misspellings. But it is certainly a handsome and exotic film to behold. There is a 1929 remake with Lupe Velez and Monte Blue which I hope one day gets a public release.
The greatly edited print I found of this looks sensational, but lacks music. It is definitely a film that needs to be seen on a big screen so the viewer can take in the Northwest regions where it takes place. In the scene where Von Eltz discovers Ulric floating down the river, he jumps off his horse and off the cliff into the rugged waters below. The subtitles have indications that the main characters are speaking in English with a strong European dialect of some kind, so they appear to be filled with all sorts of misspellings. But it is certainly a handsome and exotic film to behold. There is a 1929 remake with Lupe Velez and Monte Blue which I hope one day gets a public release.