“In spite of these inconsistencies it is a reasonably safe prediction that Nobody will satisfy 90 percent of the picture attendence, who do not analyze so closely. As a program film production Nobody thanks with the best of the drawing room melodramas. The photography is brilliant at times and the cast wholly satisfactory throughout. Roland West has utilized a similar situation, having the husband of the guilty woman as the obdurate juryman, confessing after 30 hours and the members of the jury swearing to keep his secret. He has made of it an intensely absorbing photoplay for jewel Carmen, which should give general satisfaction to First National franchise holders”. (Variety, July 29, 1921)

“In this latter day of English picture making Kitty is almost as primitive in its making as occured in the British first days”. This is the opinion of the Variety reviewer; the point is that this is exactly the reason why today the film is interesting, being an esample of the primitive period of the transition from silent to sound. Kitty is a heavy drama, directed with some skill by Victor Saville, who did his best against a complicate and somehow confused script, by shooting some very good scenes, some of them using “sound gags in a silent” that are very interesting, mostly thinking that the film was later synchronised.
ln facts, Kitty was produced as a silent; then B.I.P. decided to turn it into a port-talkie, and sent the print to New York where music and few) effects were added and a new sound ending was shot. The resulting version is an interesting hybrid: a silent film with intertitles and music and effects which suddenly becomes a sync-sound film. The differences between the two films can be appreciated by seeing the two versions.