The Spirit of the Flag (1913)
1913 · Ephemeral film · 30 min · dir. Allan Dwan
- Drama
Synopsis
Dr. Reid, a young American physician in the Philippines, risks his life in the cause of patriotism, and eventually wins the love of the girl of his choice. With the idea of developing in the natives in his community the spirit of manly citizenship, Dr. Reid requests the War Department to furnish him with a number of discarded Winchesters with which to drill the natives. His request is granted, but he runs afoul with the occupant Spanish army.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Allan Dwan
- Writer
- Wallace Reid
- Studio
- Bison Motion Pictures
- Released
- 1913-06-07
- Running time
- 30 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Cast & crew
Allan Dwan Director
Wallace Reid
Pauline Bush
Jessalyn Van Trump- Arthur Rosson
David Kirkland
Marshall Neilan
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Huzzah America? · Spuzz · 2022-01-30
A pretty bizarre (and very racist) drama about a doctor in the Philippines getting caught up in tensions between, i guess, military forces and regular people? Doc falls in love with school teacher, local girl gets jealous, her father is an old coot who everyone just wishes would go away. When a shipment of guns (dont ask) arrives.. Dad gets one, and that sets off a chain of events' that makes the military shoot up everyone in the village.. until the "good "soldiers arrive. were these revolutionaries? Nothing is really explained. Features riotously bad brown face actkrs.so so bad.
