The Little Rebel (1914)

电影

国家/地区: 美国
类型: 剧情, 短片
上映日期: 1914-12-01
导演: Sidney Olcott
编剧: N/A
语言: None | English
演员: Gene Gauntier , J.J. Clark , Arthur Donaldson
片长: 分钟
奖项: N/A
又名: The Little Rebel , The Little Rebel (美国)
剧情简介: "Although we must be enemies for a while," Sally read, "I will come to you as soon as the war is over and ask you the question in my heart." Sally then turned her attention to Belle and her luggage. Sally and Belle were daughters of the Southland. Therefore. Jim Holly's reference to "enemies" in the letter, which Belle brought her in coming to spend a few weeks with her was to be construed as meaning that her beau had joined the army of the North. Sally deplored this, for her father was General Warren of the Confederate Army and she herself was devotedly as a Southerner in her sympathies. Yet, when shortly after the arrival of Belle her love for Jim Holly was put to a test, her Southern sympathies became a secondary consideration. Holly, because of his daring, was sent by his commander to penetrate the Confederate lines and secure information as to the next move contemplated by General Warren's division. Blackening face and hands and attiring himself in the dilapidated garments of a plantation hand, he mounted a mule and, in sight of the enemy's lines, goaded the animal into a run. Holly passed by the outpost with their guffaws ringing in his ears. Divesting himself of the disguise, Holly found it necessary, in order to gain admittance to the conference of General Warren's staff, to eliminate the sentinel who stood guard at the flaps of the general's tent. A blow on the head, before the man could turn to discover his presence, and the work was done. Dragging the inert form into the brush, Holly appropriated the uniform and cap and in a few minutes had taken a position where every word so valuable to his cause could be overheard with ease. General Warren summoned the sentry to come before him for instructions. "I thought the sentry was bearded,'' one of his staff vouchsafed, as he studied Holly's face. "So he was," confirmed the general, "What's the meaning of this?" Holly had reached the open flap of the tent by this time. In a moment he had vanished. He eluded the outposts and made for a house nearby, in hope of shelter. Even as he recognized it as General Warren's mansion and sought to turn away, the sounds of pursuit reached him. There was no time to spare. He swung himself through an open window. Before him stood Sally. "Quick, hide me, I am followed," and Sally, already hearing the heavy steps of booted men on the veranda, indicated the nearest object offering shelter, the dress shape on which she had draped flowered material for a crinoline. She barely had time to arrange the dress before an aide of General Warren stepped in. The aide left shortly after. Evidently Sally's statement that she had seen nothing of the fugitive sufficed. But her agitated manner had not escaped the officer, and he returned by another door to see Holly emerging from his cramped hiding-place. The iron discipline of war imposed one of its sternest mandates on General Warren when he presided at the court martial which condemned Holly, whom he recognized as his daughter's beau, to death for espionage. While Holly lingered, locked in a room in the Warren mansion, awaiting the day of execution, General Warren was called away to attend a conference of the general staff at the commander-in-chief's headquarters. That gave Sally the chance she had been praying for. She had not forgotten the trap door under the carpet of the room above Holly's; she wondered if her father had. Need it be said that all turned out well? Of course, Holly was assisted to freedom via the trap door, but what is more, Sally went with him, the military pass and a disguise for Holly being valuable aids in their decampment, and their destination was the nearest minister. The Northern general promoted Holly; the Southern general forgave Sally. To-day they live happily at the old Warren place and of evenings delight in recounting to the young ones the story of the crinoline and the trap door.
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