The spectator hasn't time to draw his breath

Mack Sennett certainly had his nerve with him when he made this picture. It is so full of action and thrills that the spectator hasn't time to draw his breath until the finish. This picture might be termed a thrilling melodramatic comedy. Mabel Normand's gyrations on a bucking horse which finally leaps over a cliff with her, said to be 375 feet down, with a policeman who resembles Mack Sennett hanging to the horse's tail is certainly some punch. What's next? - The Moving Picture World, May 23, 1914

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