Bonnie Annie Laurie


1918

Film Details

Release Date
Sep 1, 1918
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Fox Film Corp.
Distribution Company
Fox Film Corp.; Excel Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the song "Annie Laurie," music by Lady John Scott, words anonymous (1838).

Synopsis

Annie Laurie is betrothed to Donald McGregor just before he leaves Scotland to fight the Germans in France during World War I. At home, Annie discovers a man washed up on the shore and cares for him until her father, fearing that she and the stranger, Lieutenant Hathaway, are falling in love, turns him out of the house. When Hathaway recovers, he returns to the front where he befriends Donald, while Annie becomes a Red Cross nurse. Both men are wounded in a charge and hospitalized. There Annie, though still torn between the two, eventually decides to honor her vow to Donald and marries him.

Film Details

Release Date
Sep 1, 1918
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Fox Film Corp.
Distribution Company
Fox Film Corp.; Excel Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the song "Annie Laurie," music by Lady John Scott, words anonymous (1838).

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Notes

Some sources state, erroneously, that the song was actually a poem by Robert Burns. This was Fox's first Excel release.