Shows an advance on ''The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole'', not so much in performance, which is still haunted by melodrama, as in the use of depth of field and positioning within the frame... () appears to have been hurriedly made (it was never listed among Longford's major achievements) and displays nowhere near the polish of Alfred Rolfe's ''The Hero of the Dardanelles'', completed halfway through the next year.〔Graham Shirley and Brian Adams, ''Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years'', Currency Press 1989 p 35-36〕