The Battle

Movie
Original title	The Battle
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1911
length	19 minutes
Rod
Director	DW Griffith
script	Emmett Campbell Hall
production	Biograph Company
camera	Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Bitzer
occupation
Charles West : The boy Blanche Sweet : His sweetheart Charles Hill Mailes : Commander of the Northern States Robert Harron : Union soldier Donald Crisp : Union soldier William Christy Cabanne : Union soldier Spottiswoode Aitken : Edwin August : Union soldier Lionel Barrymore : Coachman Kate Bruce : in town William J. Butler : Union soldier; when adopting Edna Foster : while dancing Joseph Graybill : Union soldier Guy Hedlund : Union soldier Dell Henderson : Union officer Harry Hyde : Union soldier J. Jiquel Lanoe : Union soldier William Chrystie Miller Alfred Paget : Confederation Officer Walter Charles Robinson : Union soldier Kate Toncray : at the dance; when adopting

The 1911 The Battle is one of a series of incoherent American silent films by director DW Griffith that deal with the Civil War . The film was released on November 6, 1911.

action

The boy joins the Union soldiers in the civil war. During his first battle, he panics and hides in the nearby house of his loved ones. This sends him back into battle , where he can rejoin his troops unnoticed. After the commanding general was badly wounded, the boy was sent to the stage to bring in ammunition supplies . On the dangerous route he managed to get an ammunition wagon through, which made it to the front line just in time to repel an attack by the Confederates .

background

The film was shot in Fort Lee . The studio recordings took place in the Champion Studios and the field recordings in the vicinity of Fort Lee.

The Battle was one of the first films by the future Oscar winner Lionel Barrymore .

Excerpts from The Battle were used in The Birth of a Nation .

Web links

• The Battle with excerpts from the film in the Internet Archive
• The Battle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Battle in the online film database