The Riddle of the Tin Soldier

The subtitle is given to this picture, "A Madelyn Mack Detective Story," and the part of girl sleuth is played by Alice Joyce. The story could hardly be called probable: but the picture has much that will go a long way toward making it popular. At its end, police raid a house where kidnappers are holding two children of a capitalist and there follows a melee and hand-to-hand struggle that wrecks the house and all the furniture in it This series of scenes take up a good bit of the film and is exciting. There is a certain freshness in the offering, due perhaps, most to the careful staging, giving new scenes and a somewhat different atmosphere. The players do well, though it isn't a picture that calls for acting of a high order. Marguerite Courtot plays a peculiar young woman, daughter of a millionaire (Henry Hallam), who schemes to persuade her father to build a "home for slum children" and kidnaps her own little brother. She falls into the hands of a set of crooks and it takes Madelyn (Alice Joyce) to rescue her and her brother. - The Moving Picture World, October 25, 1913