The Informer (1912)
18m
Running Time
November 21, 1912Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
Walter Miller
The Confederate Captain
Mary Pickford
The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart
Henry B. Walthall
The False Brother
Kate Bruce
The Mother
Dorothy Gish
The Southern Girl
Robert Harron
The Southern Boy
Harry Carey
The Confederate Corporal
W. Chrystie Miller
Union Soldier
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The Informer is a 1912 American short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and featuring Mary Pickford, Henry B. Walthall, Harry Carey, Lionel Barrymore, Dorothy Gish, and Lillian Gish. It was filmed in the Pike County town of Milford, Pennsylvania. Prints of the film survive at the film archive of the Library of Congress.