“SILKS AND SADDLES.”

Shannon News, 19 July 1921, Page 3

“SILKS AND SADDLES.”

Reviewing this latest addition to the ranks of Australian super-feature films to be presented at the Maoriland theatre on Friday under direction of F„ J. and Dan Carroll, an Australian critic writes:—“Mr John Wells, who was a co-director with Wilfred Lucas in the early E. J. Carroll productions, has certainly excelled himself in “Silks and Saddles," and to assert this is to declare that tins picture is superior to nine out of ten of its contemporaries. The interest of this speedy six reeler, always keen and absorbing, is due somewhat to the suspense in which the audience is held, the plot being so admirably planned as to defy the penetration of the most experienced picturegoer. Full of passion, action, motives, situation, and delightfully contrasted bush and city scenery, it is seldom inuleed .that we see a picture of such fascination and speed which culminates in a marvellously photographed race for tho Sydney Cup at Randwiek, in which Miss Brownie Vernon, by permission of the stewards, rides the famous racehorse, Kennaquhair, a dead heat with Poitrel.