It's the cinematography that really puts this one over. Venerable cinematographer Joseph H. August creates moody shadows, gloomy rainstorms, and flashfloods and the climax features a gunfight in the dark that is punctuated by flashing bullets. Long considered a lost film, 9.5mm condensations have been circulating among collectors for years, but the bulk of the footage and all the original title cards had been gone for almost 100 years. Film historian Kevin Brownlow discovered that a reel and a half of tinted nitrate survived in the holdings of the Cinémathèque suisse and, with that new material, would it be possible to reconstruct the original continuity? In addition to the Swiss material, the film’s original scenario survived and assorted 9.5mm cuts were held by Brownlow, editor and director Christopher Bird, and archivist Dino Everett. Two Pathex, or American 9.5mm releases, and two Pathescope, or UK 9.5mm releases.