Les deux noblesses (1913) Online

This is truly a feature picture; it is in three parts, is hand- colored and, in all that might be grouped under staging, seems as nearly perfect as possible. The leading woman is strikingly lovely, more beautiful than usual, even in Patheplays, while all the players are intelligent and natural. There are times when the acting rises pretty high and it puts substance into the story, which is not quite worthy of the fine presentation that was given it, although it is interesting. The first two reels hold strongly; but at the opening of the third reel, we find a duke's sister, who has married a count, making a surreptitious visit on a banker at his house, merely because he had written to her that her husband was ruining himself and suggesting that she call. Then the duke's newlywed wife, disliked by the mother-in- law, a finely drawn marchioness, does an over-noble action in saving her sister-in-law. It holds strongly, but doesn't move us deeply. The photography is perfect and the coloring very fine. - The Moving Picture World, April 19, 1913