On the High Seas (1914) User Reviews

Realistically worked out

[deickemeyer · 30 December 2018]

This two-reel number presents the interesting situation ot a shipowner's son on board his father's vessel. He is put to work by the captain and quarrels with the latter and the rascally mate. Mutiny breaks out and the captain is shot. The crime was committed by the mate, who afterward completely ends his superior officer's life by stabbing him. Through the efforts of the girl the shipowner's son is cleared and the mate apprehended. This is realistically worked out, though some of the scenes lacked the dramatic effect they might have had. The story is rather brutal in several places, but serves to hold the attention throughout. - The Moving Picture World, August 22, 1914