The Price of Victory (1913)
Colonel Robert Carey, a young southerner, and Lucretia Gray, his sweetheart, have a lovers' quarrel, and before they could make up he is ordered to the front. Foolish pride keeps the lovers silent and a year passes. Carey is on the staff of General Jackson, and has become famed for his reckless courage. Lorena, ardent for the Southern cause, and seeking forgetfulness of her unhappy love affair, has entered the Confederate secret service, and is ordered to report to General Jackson. As she approaches Jackson's headquarters, the sound of a cannon tells her that a fierce battle is in progress. Jackson has ordered the demolition of a bridge over Cold Creek. The Union general at the same time orders a brigade to cross the bridge and attack Jackson. The Confederates succeed in mining the bridge, but are driven off before they can explode their mine. Carey volunteers to swim down the stream, the only possible method of approach, and explode the mine, though this will entail his certain death. In making the attempt he is badly wounded by a sharp-shooter and cannot proceed. He is found by Lorena and a joyous reconciliation takes place. Carey, however, soon remembers his mission, the failure of which will mean a crushing defeat to the South, but he is helpless by reason of his wound. Lorena proposes to go in his stead, and though he knows he is sending her to certain death, he gives to his cause far more than his own life, and bids her go. Lorena reaches the mine under the bridge piers as the Union brigade is pouring across, and fires into the loose powder with the revolver Carey has given her. Her life is the price she pays for the victory. Through the bloody years that follow, Carey is ever in the forefront of the battle, but the swift death for which he longs passes him by. After the war Carey lives on through the lonely, weary years. At last, half a century after the day on which his real life ended, he makes his way to the grave of his girlish sweetheart, and falls asleep, to find the weary waiting done.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| John Ince | Director |
| Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| John Ince | |
| Betty Brice | |
| Robert Whittier | |
| William W. Cohill |
