Held by the Enemy (film)

Held by the Enemy
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Directed by Donald Crisp
Wilton Welch
Produced by Adolph Zukor
Jesse Lasky
Written by Beulah Marie Dix
Based on Held by the Enemy
by William Gillette
Starring Agnes Ayres
Lewis Stone
Cinematography C. Edgar Schoenbaum
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • October 24, 1920 (1920-10-24)
Running time
 6 reels
Country United States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

Held by the Enemy is a lost[1] 1920 American silent Civil War melodrama film directed by Donald Crisp and based on the 1886 play by William Gillette. The film starred Agnes Ayres, Lewis Stone, and Jack Holt. It was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures.[2]

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Plot

As described in a film magazine,[3] Rachel Hayne (Ayres), whose husband, a Southern soldier, is believed to have died in battle, renews a former love affair with Union fighter Colonel Charles Prescott (Holt). She also cultivates the friendship of another Northerner, Brigade Surgeon Fielding (Cain), for the purpose of obtaining quinine from him to pass on to Southern soldiers. Prescott is about to avow his love when the husband Captain Gordon Haine (Stone) returns. When Hayne is recaptured as a spy, Fielding accuses Prescott of trumping up the charge to dispose of the husband. Hayne escapes from his imprisonment, but is then recaptured, and after several incidents commits suicide. This leaves the love road free for his former wife, who never loved him, and the man to whom she has given her heart.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Held by the Enemy
  2. ↑ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Held by the Enemy
  3. ↑ "Reviews: Held by the Enemy". Exhibitors Herald. New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company. 11 (15): 104. October 9, 1920.
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