The Informer
(1912)

Released: 1912-11-21

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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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Walter Miller

as The Confederate Captain

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Mary Pickford

as The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart

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Henry B. Walthall

as The False Brother

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Kate Bruce

as The Mother

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Dorothy Gish

as The Southern Girl

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Robert Harron

as The Southern Boy

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Harry Carey

as The Confederate Corporal

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W. Chrystie Miller

as Union Soldier

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Joseph Graybill

as Union Soldier

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Lillian Gish

as Walk on role

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Lionel Barrymore

as Union Soldier

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Alfred Paget

as Confederate General

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Jack Pickford

as Negro Boy

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