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The Victoria Cross

Maine Silent Film Festival 2024 • 27-Apr-1912

Ellen’s father refuses to allow her to marry Lieutenant Cholmodeley until he has proved himself to be a brave soldier. When war breaks out between England and Russia, the Lieutenant is called to the Crimea and Ellen follows as a nurse under Florence Nightingale. There, she witnesses her lover cast into danger in the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade. Inspired by Tennyson’s poem The Charge of the Light Brigade.

Tags
aristocracy, dancing, drama, England, horses, period film, Russia, short, war
Cast
Wallace Reid Lieut. Cholmodeley
Edith Storey Ellen Carson
Tefft Johnson Colonel Carson
Rose Tapley Queen Victoria
Julia Swayne Gordon Florence Nightingale
Crew
Hal Reid director
Hal Reid producer
Alfred Lord Tennyson writer
Hal Reid writer

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