this movie be great fun to watch and like you would expect from a genre movie such a this one . it have all the typical adventurous and action and comedy element present to make this a great swashbuckling movie . add to that douglas fairbanks in good shape and you have a classic unforgettable genre movie . douglas fairbanks be totally great in this one . he look and act and breath and eats like a real superstar . he handle all of the athletic action in the movie really well . it not hard to see why this man be the swashbuckling hero of the 20 . the movie be really great look and with many grand look set . really great look stuff . ( though obviously all fake . ) something you would normally expect to see in a d. w. griffith movie . the movie also have some silly look but yet great early special effect and toward the end of the movie . the story have all the ingredient need for such a genre movie a this one while an heroic main character and a love interest and stereotypical villain and lot of fun and action . especially toward the end the movie start to become greatly adventurous after a sort of slow middle and good first part . it of course all rather simple and formulaic but this be also what make the genre so great . you just always know what to expect . it good simple fun that professionally and well make and that also beautiful to look at . also definitely fun to see how much of this movie be later use again in disney aladdin . some and mostly action sequence and be obviously almost directly copy . a great fun movie and from swashbuckling specialist director raoul walsh . positive .