The opening scene of this picture is a perfectly photographed and beautiful glimpse of the beach with billows rolling up. Gladys Hulette and Edwin Clark, as modern lovers, are discovered seated on a bit of drift-wood, recalling the romantic story of the notorious pirate. In perfect double exposure views, we see the ghost of the terrible man (Bigelow Cooper, who gesticulates too much to be very terrible) and his crew pass. Before we know it we are looking at Kidd's story. Some of the scenes are wonderfully effective (that in which the treasure is being carried up the beach is a perfectly arranged or composed scene), but some scenes are much weaker, mostly on account of melodramatic over-emphasis. Laura Sawyer plays the heroine of the captain's love story and does very well. The story is not dramatic enough to get us interested in the captain for more that a scene or two, but there is a good deal in it that will hold interest in the picture. Cromwell Childe is the author of the script, which was produced by Richard Ridgely. - The Moving Picture World, August 23, 1913
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