The Battle
About The Battle
In 1861 a Union soldier leaves his sweetheart and marches out with the cheers. When the fight turns, he hides in her house. She strikes him and tells him to go back. He runs out the window. Later he is sent with ammunition. Confederates burn the road. One wagon blows up and the drivers of the next are shot. He takes that wagon through alone. The Union line holds. The commander thanks him, and he and the girl embrace.
Cast & crew
More about The Battle
D. W. Griffith directed and wrote it. G. W. Bitzer photographed. Biograph released it on November 6, 1911. Shot in Fort Lee. Charles West plays the soldier. Blanche Sweet plays the sweetheart. Charles Hill Mailes plays the commander. Robert Harron and Donald Crisp are Union soldiers. Lionel Barrymore drives a wagon.
Themes
Look
Bitzer films the marching column, the house, and the wagon run at Fort Lee.
Preservation
Prints are held at the Museum of Modern Art, UCLA, George Eastman House, and the Filmoteca Española.
Notes
- The cowardice is in the house. The return is the ammunition wagon.
- Sweet stays when she is told to evacuate, then hits him for hiding.
- Prints are at MoMA, UCLA, George Eastman House, and the Filmoteca Española.
- The battle crowd work is Fort Lee, not a Southern location.
Scenes
- She strikes him in the house and he goes out the window.
- He drives the ammunition wagon after the other drivers are shot.
