The Governor's Daughter

Two years ago the Selig company produced this picture with Hobart Bosworth in the leading role, and did it well, much better than at this time. The script was better written for this picture (it naturally would be), but the actors, with the sole exception of the man's old mother, do not reach the same level and do not, as a whole, begin to touch the others in the force with which they impress the picture's intention on the imagination. Their acting is fair, for the most part, and there are one or two fine moments. Where the action is vigorous, as in the out-of-door scenes and the prison scenes, the picture holds, but the scenes in the governor's house, except the ending, are not effective. The mother is played by Eugenie Besserer; the man who is almost hanged is Harold Lockwood; the governor's daughter is Kathlyn Williams, and Lem Parker plays the governor. Henry W. Otto and William Hutchison have good roles. We miss the fine prison scenes of the former picture; they were great. - The Moving Picture World, February 15, 1913