Barnaby Lee
Cast & Crew
Edward H. Griffith
John Tansey
Sam Niblack
Hugh Thompson
Charles Edwards
William Wadsworth
Film Details
Synopsis
In 1644, as rebels are hanged by the British after their war with Scotland, Barnaby Lee and his father sail for America, but their ship is captured by pirates and Barnaby is led to believe that his father has been killed. At the Hudson River, the ship is stopped by the sheriff of New Amsterdam, Mynheer Van Sweringen, and ordered to leave, but the pirates continue in the boat toward a trading point. Barnaby escapes and meets the sheriff's daughter Dorothy, but he is not allowed to enter the city because of his British ancestry. After an investigation reveals that the leader of the pirates is the brother of the governor of Maryland, and that Barnaby's father, who was not killed but taken prisoner, owns an estate in Maryland, Barnaby invites Dorothy and her family to Maryland to live in his new home.
Director
Edward H. Griffith
Cast
John Tansey
Sam Niblack
Hugh Thompson
Charles Edwards
William Wadsworth
John Ridgeway
Norbert Wicke
Peggy Adams
Jessie Stevens
Joseph Burke
Alexander Rene
Film Details
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Notes
The only information located concerning this film was from the George Kleine Papers. It was included in a list of "Edison Unreleased Subjects," and a note from 1925 mentioned that it was never nationally released, although it had some distribution. The film was probably produced in 1917, as a title sheet is dated June 15, 1917.
