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the result that one skips the passing of years with a rapidity that baffles... At the end one is left in doubt as to the meaning of it all... picture does not come up to the standard of previous local productions. It may be classed as a programme picture which will appeal on sentimental grounds only.
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However well this story may read... it entirely fails to grip the interest on the screen. Starting quite auspiciously with a settler and his wife pioneering their way out into the wilds, it nevertheless peters out after the first reel. The producer has endeavored to cram too much into the story with
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could be wound up about half-way or two-thirds of the way through, so as to obviate all this trite melodrama, which has been put in obviously as a sap to the populace, it would stand as a landmark In the history of
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