The Informer
1912
Drama
Synopsis
The young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his brother to take care of his fatherless sweetheart during the perilous times which are to follow. But the brother weakens and fails to be true to his trust. He permits her to believe that her lover is dead. Caught in the neighborhood, however, between the lines of the enemy, the brother appears before them at the crucial moment. In retaliation the false brother turns informer. Both forces are aroused to arms and during the attack upon the girl defending her wounded lover and family alone in the negro's cabin retribution comes in the form of a stray bullet.
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Cast
Dorothy Gish as The Southern Girl
Harry Carey as The Confederate Corporal
Henry B. Walthall as The False Brother
Joseph Graybill as Union Soldier
Kate Bruce as The Mother
Lillian Gish as Walk on role
Mary Pickford as The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart
Robert Harron as The Southern Boy
W. Chrystie Miller as Union Soldier
Walter Miller as The Confederate Captain
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