''Huns within our gates'' (

1918 This year is noted for the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide. Events Below, the events ...

) is a silent World War I propaganda film, starring Derwent Hall Caine and Valda Valkyrien. Produced by the

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, the cast, characters and plot were used in The Crusher (1917). After being re-edited the film was re-released as ''Commercial Pirates'' in March 1919. Also known as ''The Hearts of Men''.

Cast

* Derwent Hall Caine as Arthur Morgan * Valda Valkyrien as Dorothy Waring * Harry Robinson as Judge Morgan * Robin Townley as Eli Brown * Bessie Wharton as Countess Von Shoenburg

Plot

Arthur Morgan, son of an old Southern family is engaged in perfecting an aeroplane engine designed to revolutionize the air science. He is handicapped by the impoverishment of his family. Their wealth was buried during the Civil War, and has never been discovered. The Prussian agents seek to trade upon his poverty to buy his invention, but he refuses to sell, and an effort to bomb the inventor and his plane is frustrated by the action of a pet dog, which carries the bomb away from the workshop and drops it, killing the spy, and disclosing the long buried treasure.

Status

This film is lost

References

External links

1918 films American black-and-white films American silent films American World War I propaganda films Lost American films Arrow Film Corporation films 1910s American films {{1910s-US-film-stub