This three-part serial "fuses elements of Fairbanks, Feuillade and Lang with brilliant location shooting in city and countryside... The film's prolific visual invention and amusingly convoluted plotting take in a Nosferatu-like body in a coffin, mysterious encounters in a chateau, kidnappings on a jetty, and culminates in an extended, accelerating pursuit involving cars and horses. Barnet exploits all the serial conventions and improves on them, winding down to a charming, poetic epilogue." – John Gillett, National Film Theatre