The Battle Cry of Peace (1915)
1h 30m
Running Time
August 5, 1915Release Date
The Battle Cry of Peace (1915)
1h 30m
Running Time
August 5, 1915Release Date
Plot.
Enemy agents under the leadership of "Emanon" conspire with pacifists to keep the American defense appropriations down at a time when forces of the enemy are preparing to invade. The invasion comes, and New York, Washington, and other American cities are devastated.
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Cast & Crew.
Charles Richman
John Harrison
L. Rogers Lytton
Mr. Emanon
James Morrison
Charley Harrison
Mary Maurice
Mrs. Harrison
Louise Beaudet
Mrs. Vandergriff
Harold Hubert
John Vandergriff
Jack Crawford
Poet Scout
Charles Kent
The Master
Julia Swayne Gordon
Magdalen
Evart Overton
Vandergriff's Son
Belle Bruce
Alice Harrison
Norma Talmadge
Virginia Vandergriff
Lucille Hammill
Dorothy Vandergriff
Thais Lawton
Columbia
Lionel Braham
The War Monster
Joseph Kilgour
George Washington
Paul Scardon
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
William J. Ferguson
Abraham Lincoln
Hudson Maxim
Himself / Book
J. Stuart Blackton
Director / Writer / Producer
Wilfrid North
Director
Arthur T. Quinn
Director of Photography
Leonard Smith
Director of Photography
S.L. Rothafel
Original Music Composer
Media.
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The Battle Cry of Peace is a 1915 American silent war film directed by Wilfrid North and J. Stuart Blackton, one of the founders of Vitagraph Company of America who also wrote the scenario. The film is based on the book Defenseless America, by Hudson Maxim, and was distributed by V-L-S-E, Incorporated. The film stars Charles Richman, L. Rogers Lytton, and James W. Morrison.
Alternate titles for this film were A Call to Arms and The Battle Cry of War. In the UK, the film was called An American Home. A sequel followed in 1917, Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation.