Name: Shell Forty-Three
Released: 1916
Cast: H. B. Warner, Enid Markey, Jack Gilbert, George Fisher, Margaret Thompson

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Aug 13, 1916

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

New York Motion Picture Corp.; Kay-Bee

Distribution Company

Triangle Film Corp.

Country

United States

Synopsis

Allegedly sent to Germany as an American war correspondent, William Berner, who quickly wins the confidence of the German military brass, is really a British spy. Then, he learns that as part of the new Allied strategy, the house where he is staying must be bombed. Choosing to ignore the fact that the Germans are his enemies, William saves the lives of the three German women who are in the house with him, but before the British high command can question his loyalty, he gives up his life for England after he fights his way into Pit Forty-Three, a German stronghold, and then wires the British to bomb it, leaving himself no time to get away.