To those who may have any lingering doubts regarding the high quality of photoplays now coming from the hands of the I.M.P. Co., we recommend "The Aggressor" for a critical examination. It is seldom that anything quite so dramatic is issued by any maker of pictures, and certainly none has offered a better example in motion picture photography or in serious portrayal of basic human emotions. The story is laid in the western mining country where men think and act primitively. A young miner abuses his pretty wife who deserts him for the first man who comes along, another miner. When the husband returns, the knowledge that his wife has left him does not seem to affect him seriously until he happens upon a cigar butt, which discovery conveys to him a realization that she has gone with another man. His jealousy is aroused and, gun in hand, he seeks the despoiler of his home. In the meantime the man and woman have traveled far and are resting in camp. While going for water the man falls over a precipice and is badly hurt. While the woman moans in despair at the side of the injured paramour, the husband, who has been wildly following their trail, arrives and discovers them. The woman prevents an immediate killing and induces her husband to take the injured miner back to their cabin. The injured man recovers and is about to depart when the husband intimates that there is a score between them to be settled. The interloper is reluctant to engage in any hostilities, but the husband forces the issue, with the result that in a pistol duel the husband forces the issue, with the result that in a pistol duel the husband is killed. A terrified witness to the proceedings which she is unable to prevent, the wife rushes to the body of her fallen husband. Finding him dead, she turns upon the other man and drives him from her presence. The plot gives ample play for intense emotion and the work of the Imp players is gratifying in the extreme, in that they do not overplay their parts, which might easily be done. The photographic effects are appreciably heightened in the final scene where the survivor of the duel is seen slowly wending his way over the brow of the hill in the light of the rising sun. It is a picture that is highly creditable to the Imp Company. - The Moving Picture World, October 7, 1911
