The Silent Signal (1912) watch online HD

A melodramatic picture, in which the hero, heroine and villain are introduced without loss of time, which is commendable. We see at once enough to understand the social status of the first two. but not of the third. It is always safe to take time enough to properly introduce the villain. In this case we don't know that the man was influential in any way. Such a knowledge helps in melodramas. The villain must never be a nonentity, even for one act. Also, since the melodrama's writer had decided to have this villain caught abusing a meek half-breed. it would have been better to have the hero interfere, rather than the heroine, since the villain was to wreak vengeance on him, and she was to learn of his predicament by means of a silent signal, and to bring the troops to the rescue. A heroine needs to be young and pretty more than courageous, while the hero needs to be chivalrous. The hero in this instance is almost colorless. Capt. W. Dean wrote the scenario. L.C. Phillips plays the lieutenant and hero; Edna Payne, the colonel's daughter and heroine. - The Moving Picture World, December 7, 1912