A sea and fishing village love story, with fisher folk, smugglers, beauty in danger and distress, and the hero coming to the rescue with U.S. revenue men in a speedy, wave-leaping motor boat. It is well acted, giving realistic naturalness and rough humor. In fact, because of the skillful manner in which the whole situation has been handled, it impresses one as having much freshness of interest. The "lesser evil" is death; the heroine preferred death to being the sport of a smuggler's ship-load of drunken, mutinous sailors. The hero arrives in time. The camera work is commendably fair. - The Moving Picture World, May 11, 1912
Review of The Lesser Evil
