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The Fortunes of War (1912)
Short | Short, Drama

The Fortunes of War (1912)

Short | Short, Drama

Mrs. Hartford gives her son her husband's sword and tells him to uphold the honor of the family. The boy leaves his home to join his command and is sent off on picket duty. While on duty. Gordon, the spy, is breaking through the lines, is ...See moreMrs. Hartford gives her son her husband's sword and tells him to uphold the honor of the family. The boy leaves his home to join his command and is sent off on picket duty. While on duty. Gordon, the spy, is breaking through the lines, is fired upon and wounded; he fires in return and George gets killed. Gordon gets away, sees an upstairs veranda with a casement window and climbs to it. It is the window of the widow's room. She, sitting inside, hears the noise and comes to the window, finds Gordon, the spy, wounded and exhausted with his flight. She washes his wounds and feeds him as he starts to tell his story of escape. A noise is heard outside the door and he hurriedly exits by the window. The Sergeant enters and breaks the news of George's death to the widow. He then goes out and the body is brought in by the soldiers draped with a flag. The sword is also brought in and handed to the widow. The Sergeant and soldiers exit and the widow is left with her dead. The spy, Gordon, outside, not hearing any further sounds, and having seen the soldiers leave the house ventures to put his head in through the curtain window again. The widow in her grief has for the moment forgotten him. He enters, sees her with the body, and with the idea that he is intruding, starts for the window again. The widow hears him in the room, looks up from the body and tells him that the soldiers have brought hack her only son, dead. Something fascinates the spy and he draws near to the body. The widow uncovers her dead son's face and the spy starts back. His manner being strange, the widow accuses him of killing her son and the spy confesses. She makes a motion to go to the window to call the soldiers back, but the man begs for his life. She crosses the room and looks again to the face of her son and then to the window. The spy tells her to shout to the soldiers. He will give up his life for the trouble he has brought on the widow. But she, looking at the poor wretch, lets him go and he leaves by the window. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Jefferson Osborne Gordon - the Northern Spy Gordon - the Northern Spy See fewer	The Last Egyptian (1914)
Howard Lindsay George Hartford - the Son George Hartford - the Son See fewer	The Story of a Wallet (1912)
Gertrude Claire Mrs. Hartford - the Mother (unconfirmed) Mrs. Hartford - the Mother (unconfirmed) See fewer	Oliver Twist (I) (1922)

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