Name: Rose of the South
Released: 1916
Cast: Peggy Hyland, Antonio Moreno, Mary Maurice, Arthur Cozine, Charles Kent

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Also Known As

Randolph '64

Release Date

Dec 4, 1916

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Vitagraph Co. of America; A Blue Ribbon Feature

Distribution Company

Greater Vitagraph (V-L-S-E, Inc.)

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the short story "Randolph '64" by Arthur Train in The Saturday Evening Post (2 Dec 1905).

Synopsis

Mr. Curtis returns to his alma mater and regales students with stories about the Civil War, which ended fifty years before. He tells them about his college friends, Dick Randolph and Watkins, who were at first rivals for Marian - who far preferred Dick - and then rivals on the battlefield. Watkins, a Union officer, captured Dick, a Confederate, but Marian helped her sweetheart escape. Watkins and Dick were then wounded in the same battle and died in each other's arms after asserting their friendship and forgetting their past differences. Back in the present, an aged Marian joins the group. She dies while listening to Mr. Curtis, and fifty years after she and Dick had been lovers in the flesh, her spirit goes to join his.