The story is quite a good one. The villain is a brother in law who decides if he can't get the girl, he will punish the man she loves--his half brother. He is a heroic man who foils some bank robbers and then gets arrested for the crime--on the say so of said brother-in-law. He is sent to prison. He starts up again and is running for office, when the brother in law shows up an discredits him. In an endless fight the bad guy is supposedly killed and our hero thinks he is being arrested for it. Filled with guilt, he confesses, telling everything that has happened to him. But there is a twist at the end. I got caught up in this because the villain was so bad and I wanted the man to come out on top. Nicely restored film. I agree, the music is throbbing and doesn't do justice to this silent film.
Review of The First Degree
