21 Dec 1912
A Proposal Under Difficulties
Short film involving a flirtatious maid.
The Enemy
A vivid drama of Austria and one side of the war known only to the women.
Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted. Pauli and her family and friends are left behind to experience the suffering which befell civilians during the war. Her luck worsens when her father is dismissed from his professorship for teaching that war is evil. Her father argues violently with Carl's father, and degradation and despair descend on Pauli and her family as they await Carl's return from the front.
Top Billed Cast
Lillian Gish Pauli Arndt
Ralph Forbes Carl Behrend
Ralph Emerson Bruce Gordon
Frank Currier Prof. Arndt
George Fawcett August Bejremd
Fritzi Ridgeway Mitzi Winkelmann
John S. Peters Fritz Winkelmann
Karl Dane Jan
Polly Moran Baruska
Billy Kent Schaefer Kurt
Louise Emmons (uncredited)
Betty Jane Graham Little Girl (uncredited)
Joel McCrea Extra (uncredited)
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