The Poet and the Soldier (1913) User Reviews

The battle scenes are fair; we have had better

[deickemeyer · 9 September 2017]

A picture suggested by a lyric poem of Trench's, which was used by permission. Hattie Gray Baker is the authoress and had pictured the soldier as wounded and dying. He tells his story to a poet, v/ho comforts his last moments. This story is disconnected and not dramatic in any real sense of the term and does not deeply interest, although one or two incidents did "capture" two foreigners behind us. The producer has shown a common soldier as living with his wife in a way that only one with the income of an officer could afford. Carlyle Blackwell plays the soldier; Lucile Young, the wife; and William H. West, the poet. The battle scenes are fair; we have had better. The photography is clear. - The Moving Picture World, May 31, 1913