The March of Time, Vol. 5, No. 12: The Movies March On

Written by John MacDonagh, who fought in 1916 Rising

Dorothy West in The House with Closed Shutters (1910)

Gladys Egan and Charles West in In the Border States (1910)

His Trust: The Faithful Devotion and Self-Sacrifice of an Old Negro Servant

Kate Bruce

Edward Dillon

Clara T. Bracy

J. McDonagh

Two Johns, a Confederate and an Union soldier, leave their family to go to the front. After a skirmish they end up separated from their respective sides, the Union soldier shoots the Confederate, but he has to escape and look for ...

D.W. Griffith

The Fugitive

Loss and mercy

Seven stars. Watching Griffith&apos;s Civil War shorts, one might get the idea that everyone fighting in the War did so just down the block from their family home. A great narrative convenience, that! But to the point. This film rehashes a lot of the themes from &quot;In the Border States,&quot; but does so in a less compelling way. Here it&apos;s the mother of a (Confederate) soldier who hides a (Union) soldier from the pursuit of the other side. Despite some very strong reasons for her not to.

None of the acting is worth much note here. Kate Bruce and Dorothy West both did much better work in other films. And this is still early enough in Griffith&apos;s career that he was still figuring out how to get plot points across without histrionics. But I do have to praise him for making another film that humanizes the effects of war. This isn&apos;t a film about victory, or the demonization of &quot;the enemy&quot;. It&apos;s a film about humanity and mercy. And that&apos;s something worth praising these days. 6 February 2025.

Seven stars. Watching Griffith's Civil War shorts, one might get the idea that everyone fighting in the War did so just down the block from their family home. A great narrative convenience, that! But to the point. This film rehashes a lot of the themes from "In the Border States," but does so in a less compelling way. Here it's the mother of a (Confederate) soldier who hides a (Union) soldier from the pursuit of the other side. Despite some very strong reasons for her not to.

None of the acting is worth much note here. Kate Bruce and Dorothy West both did much better work in other films. And this is still early enough in Griffith's career that he was still figuring out how to get plot points across without histrionics. But I do have to praise him for making another film that humanizes the effects of war. This isn't a film about victory, or the demonization of "the enemy". It's a film about humanity and mercy. And that's something worth praising these days. 6 February 2025.

Two Johns, a Confederate and an Union soldier, leave their family to go to the front. After a skirmish they end up separated from their respective sides, the Union soldier shoots the Confederate, but he has to escape and look for refuge in the house of his enemy.

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