A spy who saves the enemy he should destroy — WWI's most inconvenient conscience.
William Berner is an English spy who is doing his job behind German lines. While working for the allies, he proves sympathetic toward a German Lieutenant and saves his life. He gives up his own romance for the cause and is killed when the Allies shell the German trench where he happens to be.
Acting
H.B. Warner's anguished eyes doing all the talking.
Direction
Barker's battlefield staging without sound design crutches.
Director
Reginald Barker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
John Gilbert appears here in an early bit role before becoming 1920s silent cinema's biggest romantic lead.
Made during WWI itself, this was propaganda that dared question propaganda — remarkably subversive for 1916.
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