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An unusual picture with an extremely interesting atmosphere. It's naturally a love story and deals with the discovery of a rich gold ledge once known to the Aztecs, but long lost. It probably was suggested by a real temple of prehistoric Mexico some good views of which are included; but its author has carefully laid out his plot and the picture shows none of the haphazard looseners that has begun to seem almost the rule with photoplays made to order. It opens in New York and with some perfect interior sets in the home of a rich merchant whose daughter resembles an old painting of an Aztec princess, her ancestress. This fact plays no part in the story, it is brought in merely for atmosphere, an atmosphere, by the way. that the picture doesn't pretend to develop. In the novel of this type the girl usually has something to do with finding the mine; is looked upon by the natives as a goddess or something of that kind and the scenario writer perhaps knew that the spectator would follow the well-known clue and that his picture would get an added touch of mystery. We commend him for it, but wish that he could have taken the time to make two reels or more; he shows that he can be interesting. The author is J.C. Cowks and he knows how to make an acceptable picture, and Henry McRae, its producer, can put one over. Hobart Bosworth plays the American mining engineer who discovers the "lost ledge" and so wins the girl, who is played by Phyllis Gordon. Henry W. Otto plays the girl's father and F. Galves and A.E. Garcia have parts as Mexicans. The photography is of the best and the offering plainly took the audience into camp. The sub-titles are not just what was wanted. - The Moving Picture World, February 15, 1913