Huns Within Our Gates
Huns within our gates (1918) is a silent World War I propaganda film, starring Derwent Hall Caine and Valda Valkyrien.[1] Produced by the Arrow Film Corporation, the cast, characters and plot were used in The Crusher (1917). After being re-edited the film was re-released as Commercial Pirates in March 1919.[2] Also known as The Hearts of Men.[3]
| Huns within our gates | |
|---|---|
| Starring | Derwent Hall Caine Valda Valkyrien |
Production company | |
Release date | 1918 |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent film English intertitles |
Cast
- Derwent Hall Caine as Arthur Morgan
- Valda Valkyrien as Dorothy Waring
- Harry Robinson as Judge Morgan
- Robin Townley as Eli Brown
- Bessie Wharton as Countess Von Shoenburg
Plot
Arthur Morgan, son of an old Southern family is engaged in perfecting an aeroplane engine designed to revolutionize the air science. He is handicapped by the impoverishment of his family. Their wealth was buried during the Civil War, and has never been discovered. The Prussian agents seek to trade upon his poverty to buy his invention, but he refuses to sell, and an effort to bomb the inventor and his plane is frustrated by the action of a pet dog, which carries the bomb away from the workshop and drops it, killing the spy, and disclosing the long buried treasure.[4]
References
- Huns Within Our Gates, 1918, retrieved November 4, 2020
- Shull, Michael S. (2000). Radicalism in American silent films, 1909-1929 : a filmography and history. McFarland. p. 74. ISBN 9780786406920.
- "Lyric - Vaudeville". Buffalo Evening News (Buffalo, New York, United States of America). May 24, 1919.
- "Moving Picture World (Sep - Oct 1918)". New York, Chalmers Publishing Company. 1918: 1195.
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