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With Sheridan at Murfreesboro
(1911) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: (unknown)
The Champion Film Company production; distributed by Motion Picture Distributing & Sales Company. / Produced by Mark M. Dintenfass. / Released 22 May 1911. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama: Historical: Civil War.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? George Wentworth, a Tennessean, lived with his parents near the home of his sweetheart, Marion Caldwell, in Murfreesboro. War had broken out between North and South and George’s father had obtained a commission for him in the Southern Army and summoned him home from West Point. But the joy of the old patriot was turned to grief, for his son refused to don the gray. He appealed to the youth, but George was firm in the belief that the Stars and Stripes meant an indissoluble Union. At his outraged father’s command, he leaves his boyhood’s home to give his life if need be to the cause he upheld. And the swirling and churning of the fiery vortex of war brings these two, father and son, again together, the father a prisoner in the camp of his son. Then a missive arrived from the wife and mother. Ill unto death, each word depicting her agony and crying out for her boy and his father. George hastens to his father with the news. The boy thrusts his revolver into his parent’s hand, who, half dazed, rushes forth to the side of his wife. The news of the escape reaches General Sheridan, and George is immediately court-martialed and sentenced to be shot at sunrise. His father, as in a vision, at his wife’s bedside, sees his boy led to his execution. With aching heart, he springs to his feet, crosses the river and on entering the Federal lines, sees the firing squad with guns raised to shoot his son. With a mad cry, he lunges forward, bearing his son to the ground and sheltering him with his own body, as the death volley rings out over their heads. They are saved! Carried wounded before Sheridan, the old soldier tells the truth. George is restored, with unstained honor, to his former rank and his father freed on parole.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: History: USA: American Civil War (1861-1865) - People: Military: General Phillip Sheridan
Listing updated: 30 August 2023.
References: Pitts-Hollywood p. 5 : Website-IMDb.
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