The Informer
6.7
The young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his brother to take care of his fatherless sweetheart during the perilous times which are to follow. But the brother weakens and fails to be true to his trust. He permits her to believe that her lover is dead. Caught in the neighborhood, however, between the lines of the enemy, the brother appears before them at the crucial moment. In retaliation the false brother turns informer. Both forces are aroused to arms and during the attack upon the girl defending her wounded lover and family alone in the negro's cabin retribution comes in the form of a stray bullet.
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Walter Miller
The Confederate Captain
Known for
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
Mary Pickford
The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart
Known for
The Lonely Villa
Henry B. Walthall
The False Brother
Known for
The Birth of a Nation
Wings
Kate Bruce
The Mother
Known for
Way Down East
A Corner in Wheat
Dorothy Gish
The Southern Girl
Known for
Orphans of the Storm
The Cardinal
Robert Harron
The Southern Boy
Known for
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The Birth of a Nation
Harry Carey
The Confederate Corporal
Known for
Red River
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
W. Chrystie Miller
Union Soldier
Known for
A Corner in Wheat
The Lonedale Operator
Joseph Graybill
Union Soldier
Known for
The Lonedale Operator
Lillian Gish
Walk on role
Known for
The Night of the Hunter
The Birth of a Nation
Lionel Barrymore
Union Soldier
Known for
It's a Wonderful Life
You Can't Take It with You
Alfred Paget
Confederate General
Known for
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
D.W. Griffith Director · George Hennessy Writer
United States release November 21, 1912 · Produced in United States
Production
American Mutoscope & Biograph
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United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · November 21, 1912
Theatrical
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