The Common Cause
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J. Stuart Blackton
Director
Effie Shannon
Belgium
Irene Castle
France
Violet Heming
Britannia
Julia Arthur
Italy
Marjorie Rambeau
Columbia
Film Details
Release Date
Jan
5,
1919
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Blackton Productions, Inc.
Distribution Company
Vitagraph Co. of America; A Vitagraph Special Release
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the musical play Getting Together book by J. Hartley Manners, Ian Hay (pseud. of Ian Hay Beith) and Percival Knight; songs by Gitz Rice (New York, 18 Mar 1918).
Synopsis
Helene Palmer and her husband Orrin have grown apart, and Helene becomes infatuated with a young bachelor, Edward Wadsworth. With the outbreak of World War I, Orrin and Edward enlist, and Helene works as a Red Cross nurse in a small French town. When Edward is wounded on a dangerous scouting mission near the town, Orrin carries him to safety. Then, during the night, the town is taken by the Germans, and Orrin rescues Helene just as she is about to be overpowered by a German officer. From his deathbed, Edward, morally strengthened from his life as a soldier, reunites the married couple and soon after, peace is declared.
Director
J. Stuart Blackton
Director
Cast
Effie Shannon
Belgium
Irene Castle
France
Violet Heming
Britannia
Julia Arthur
Italy
Marjorie Rambeau
Columbia
Herbert Rawlinson
Orrin Palmer
Sylvia Breamer
Helene Palmer
Huntley Gordon
Edward Wadsworth
Lawrence Grossmith
Tommy Atkins
Charles Blackton
Violet Blackton
Two little Belgian refugees
Mlle. Marcel
A French Girl
Louis Dean
German general
Crew
Film Details
Release Date
Jan
5,
1919
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Blackton Productions, Inc.
Distribution Company
Vitagraph Co. of America; A Vitagraph Special Release
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the musical play Getting Together book by J. Hartley Manners, Ian Hay (pseud. of Ian Hay Beith) and Percival Knight; songs by Gitz Rice (New York, 18 Mar 1918).
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This film was produced under the auspices of the British Canadian Recruiting Mission.
