A glorious picture in many ways; it is beautifully colored and very well acted by skillful and pleasing players. Perhaps the picture's best quality is its truthfulness to the romantic tradition. In this, it is scholarly. It is not only a story costumed and played as in the Middle Ages; but is also a story that belongs to its time; it seems like an old story retold and not a modern story told in a background of moated castles, crowns, mantles of silk and satin, swords, armor and dungeons. We enjoyed it and every one seemed to enjoy it around us, except only as to the last ten feet which was gloomy and also seemed wholly unnecessary. Radgrune is the daughter of a baron whose convoy is robbed by a powerful neighbor. She has a graceful dancing girl whom she sends to her enemy's castle to win the love of his son. This girl is successful. She drugs the young prince, admits the baron's adherents and the youth is kidnapped and carried to the baron's castle. Radgrune then falls in love with him. He escapes from the dungeon under a beautiful purple satin robe that she had bought. She is left alone in the cell and stabs herself. - The Moving Picture World, April 6, 1912
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