The Informer

The Informer (1912)

Drama

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.

Director: D.W. Griffith

Casts

	Walter Miller as The Confederate Captain
	Mary Pickford as The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart
	Henry B. Walthall as The False Brother
	Kate Bruce as The Mother
	Dorothy Gish as The Southern Girl
	Robert Harron as The Southern Boy
	Harry Carey as The Confederate Corporal
	W. Chrystie Miller as Union Soldier
	Joseph Graybill as Union Soldier
	Lillian Gish as Walk on role
	Lionel Barrymore as Union Soldier
	Alfred Paget as Confederate General
	Jack Pickford as Negro Boy

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