• Rating:
• Genre: Crime
• Director: Robert T. Thornby
• Release Year: 1916
• Run Time: 5rl minutes

Plot

Captain Harry Ford (Carlyle Blackwell) is tracking down moonshiners in the South when he runs afoul of nasty political goings-on. Some Negroes have stolen a ballot box, but a white man refuses to be bribed for its return and horsewhips the group's leader. The Negro kills the man, and the crime gets pinned on Ford. Ford is sent to prison for life, but escapes when he is put on a road-working gang. His Southern sweetheart, Georgia Gwynne (Ethel Clayton) helps him so that he can prove his innocence and finally the Negro murderer confesses. The racist attitude of this film is on par with that of Birth of a Nation, and is a sad statement on the prevailing attitudes of the 1910s. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide

Cast

Ethel Clayton - Georgia Gwynne
Madge Evans - Georgia as a Girl
Louis Grisel - Moses
Stanhope Wheatcroft - Paul Fitzhugh
Carlyle Blackwell - Harry Ford
Herbert Barrington - Gen. Gwynne
Jessie Lewis - Bessie Fitzhugh
William Sherwood - Jefferson
John Tansey - Harry as a Boy
Henry West - Sampson

Credit

Robert T. Thornby - Director