The Challenge Accepted

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The Challenge Accepted (1918)

Directed by Edwin L. Hollywood

Drama · 50m

In the Blue Ridge Mountains Postmaster's daughter Sally Haston loves Steve Carey, but wants him to enlist and fight the Germans during the Great War. Steve is unhappy at the training camp Steve argues with his roughneck tentmate Billy Murphy. When Steve deserts to visit Sally she takes him back to the camp, where Captain Roderick Brooke sympathetically explains the purpose of the war. Later, moonshiner James Grogan holes up with a gun to escape the draft and holds Sally prisoner. Her father organizes a posse, but Steve, home on leave, rescues her and announces that he is leaving for Europe to fight for democracy.

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Cast

Zena Keefe Sally Haston Charles Eldridge John Haston Russell Simpson Uncle Zeke Sawyer Chester Barnett Steve Carey Joel Day Tom Carey Sidney D'Albrook Billy Murphy Jack Hopkins James Grogan Warren Cook Captain Roderick Brooke

Crew

Director
Edwin L. Hollywood

Details

Release date
1918-12-29
Runtime
50m
Genres
Drama
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
No Language
Countries
United States of America
Production
Arden Photoplays