The Girl of the Lighthouse (1912) User Reviews

The picture's fault is that it tries to show us too much

[deickemeyer · 15 October 2016]

Mr. Hobart Bosworth and his usual company play in this picture an acceptable story of love in the salty atmosphere around a lighthouse on an island on the Pacific Coast near San Diego. It opens in calm weather, and takes us through a storm in a story in kind somewhat like "Shore Acres." The villain, who has also taken a fancy to the keeper's pretty daughter, tries to wreck her lover, the fisherman, by tampering with the lights. The girl manages to get back to the lamps and relight them in time. Some of the views of the stormy sea are worthy of the highest praise as photographs. The interiors also are extremely good. The picture's fault is that it tries to show us too much. We can't expect a picture of the hero's barque in dangerous seas and, if we are shown it in calm weather, we are not affected by it. Perhaps if some of these things were left to our imaginations, we would have felt a deeper thrill. It is a desirable picture, nearly a feature - The Moving Picture World, March 30, 1912