Home Movies TV Series Search Sign in

The Common Cause

0.0 70 mins Comedy   Drama   1919
J. Stuart Blackton Feature Pictures  
Director(s): J. Stuart Blackton

Release Date: 05 Sun, Jan 1919

Helene Palmer and her husband Orrin have grown apart, and she becomes infatuated with bachelor Edward Wadsworth. With the outbreak of World War I, Orrin and Edward enlist, while Helene works as a Red Cross nurse in a small French town. Edward is wounded on a dangerous scouting mission near the town and Orrin carries him to safety. The enemy invades during the night, and Orrin rescues Helene as she is about to be overpowered by a German officer. The dying Edward, morally strengthened by his experience as a soldier, encourages the couple to reunite. Soon after, peace is declared.

Casts of The Common Cause

Effie Shannon

as Belgium (prologue)

Irene Castle

as France (prologue)

Violet Heming

as Britannia (prologue)

Julia Arthur

as Italy (prologue)

Marjorie Rambeau

as Columbia (prologue)

Herbert Rawlinson

as Orrin Palmer

Sylvia Breamer

as Helene Palmer

Huntley Gordon

as Edward Wadsworth

Lawrence Grossmith

as Tommy Atkins

Louis Dean

as German General

Charles Stuart Blackton

as Little Belgian Refugee

Violet Virginia Blackton

as Little Belgian Refugee

Philip Van Loan

as The Poilu

Marcelle Carroll

as French Girl

You might also like