Secret Service (1919)
June 15, 1919Release Date
Plot.
Lewis Dumont, a Northern officer in the American Civil War, works undercover behind Confederate lines in an attempt to lead Southern forces away from an area in which a Northern attack is planned. But Dumont falls in love with a Southern girl and when she proves useful to his plan, his conscience begins to tear at him.
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Cast & Crew.
Robert Warwick
Major Lewis K. Dumont
Wanda Hawley
Edith Varney
Theodore Roberts
General Harrison Randolph
Edythe Chapman
Mrs. Varney
Hugh Ford
Director
Robert Cain
Captain Henry Dumont
Beulah Marie Dix
Writer
Irving Cummings
Benton Arrelsford
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Secret Service is a lost 1919 American silent American Civil War drama film starring Robert Warwick and directed by Hugh Ford. It was produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Based on the play Secret Service by William Gillette (New York, 5 Oct 1896), it was remade as a talking picture by RKO in 1931.
One of the story’s chief plot twists is referenced in the 1923 short story "Devil Cat", featuring Carroll John Daly’s hard boiled detective Race Williams.