I just saw The Mighty on YouTube today and it was an excellent movie, about character growth. It was about Blake Greeson ( George Bancroft) a member of a gang led by. Sterky ( Warner Oland), who is drafted into the Army to fight on WWI. Blake was not exactly happy to do this, he ripped up his draft letter and was AWOL for three weeks and the military had to send four people to arrest him. While in the military, Blake becomes a hero and rises from Private to Major. One of the soldiers with.him was a Lieutenant Jerry Patterson ( Morgan Farley), who wants to be like Blake but is afraid. Patterson ends up getting shot by a German soldier and ends up dying but happy that he was no longer a coward, and wants Blake to tell his father ( O. P. Heggie) and his sister Sue ( the always beautiful Esther Ralston) what happened. After the war, Blake starts to get back into his life of crime, but realizes this is a mistake because before he had one friend Dogey.( Raymond Hatton) who was in the gang and now he was admired by everyone. Spoilers ahead: Sterky and other gang members ( not Dogey) were robbing a bank and Blake and other servicemen went after them. Blake rushed into a dark room ( like Jerry did into the German pillbox), but unlike Jerry, he is only wounded. While this was happening Dogey took Sterky's girlfriend Mayme ( Dorothy Revier) over to Sue ( who became Blake's girlfriend) to tell her the truth about Blake. But in the end, Sue had no problems with Blake being a former criminal and they remained together. The character growth in Blake in the end, allowed him not only to go not back to his previous criminal life ( and probably ended up dead or in jail), but to have a woman in Sue who accepted him for who became is instead of judging him on who he was. 8/10 stars.
Review of The Mighty
