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The Fugitive

191017 minUnited States
DramaWar

Synopsis

Two Civil War soldiers named John leave their families to fight on opposite sides. After one kills the other, he unknowingly seeks shelter in his enemy's home, placing the grieving mother before an extraordinary choice.

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Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
17:04
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · D. W. Griffith · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsD. W. Griffith

Historical context

The parallel departures emphasize what the opposing families share. John MacDonagh wrote the screenplay before his later participation in Ireland's Easter Rising.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

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Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.

  • Kate Bruce — Unknown photographer; Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1921) (1921) at the Internet Archive · Public domain
  • Edward Dillon — Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research; detail from http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=105122 · Public domain

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