[8] The film consists of a series of episodes from the life and criminal career of bushranger Dan Morgan, leading up to his violent death at the hands of the police.

Mr Spencer has produced at great expense the true story of Dan Morgan, the notorious Australian outlaw, making no attempt to glorify his doings or palliate the heinousness of his crime, but presenting the subject in such a way as will point a strong moral lesson, and show the ultimate fate of all evil-doers, for the wages of sin is death.

[21] Critical reaction was positive[22] with the reviewer from The Sydney Morning Herald calling it: A thrilling series relating to the life of the notorious outlaw Dan Morgan, which was well received by a large audience.

The picture-play shows realistically the exploits of that criminal, amidst surroundings of some beautiful Australian bush scenery, while the photographic quality is quite equal to anything yet accomplished from Mr Spencer's factory.

"[26] The Daily Telegraph said "beyond the flimsy justification of a severe horsewhipping following upon a stinging insult to his employer, and a certain amount of brute courage exhibited by a ruffian when in extremis, there isn't in the picture a single feature to attract sympathy for the ruthless robber and murderer.

The glorification of Australian bushrangers in moving pictures having been condemned on all sides, Mr Spencer claims that no harm can be done if, as in this instance, the true character of the outlaw is presented.

Mr Spencer's artist has apparently taken the raw official records of the heartless Dan Morgan and constructed a picture story in all its natural horrors.

One is shown a series of sensational encounters, in which Morgan murders his colleagues in cold blood, shoots wholesale his pursuers from behind safe shelter, and robs indiscriminately throughout his brief career, with never more than a natural suggestion of wavering courage on the part of other people.

From the time when he was dismissed from his situation for laziness till he was riddled with bullets at the end of a gruesome man-hunt the sensational incidents of Morgan's life were depleted with a measure of fidelity to the period that betokened a great amount of thought and ingenuity.

and when, after shooting the troopers dead, he fiendishly kicks their bodies, the spectator, far from gaining any romantic ideas of those times, sees a terribly vivid picture of the hideousness of them.