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A Selig film which has snap and go enough to make it interesting, while the scenery represented is excellent. It is a love story, with the capture of the girl by Arabs as a motif and her rescue by sailors from a United States ship. Love stories are much the same, the only possible variation being in the details, and here there is plenty to keep up the interest as the party dashes across the desert, get into a running fight, push a foot bridge down and finally bring the captive safely to her mother's arms. Of course the young lieutenant gets the girl, as was intended, and what is additionally interesting, gets a partnership in a large, business enterprise owned by the girl's father. The acting and staging are both in keeping with the subject, and details seem to be reasonably well worked out. Never having visited the desert it is impossible to say whether that is accurate or not, but those portions which are familiar deserve no criticism. The photography is good, which adds much to the attractiveness. - The Moving Picture World, July 31, 1909