The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg

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Directed bySidney Olcott
Written byGene Gauntier
Produced bySidney Olcott
The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg
Gene Gauntier as Nan, the Girl Spy
Directed bySidney Olcott
Written byGene Gauntier
Produced bySidney Olcott
StarringGene Gauntier
JP McGowan
Robert Vignola
CinematographyGeorge K. Hollister
Production
company
Distributed byGeneral Film Company
Release date
  • December 28, 1910 (1910-12-28)
[1]
Running time
935 ft
(14 minutes)[1][2]
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent film
(English intertitles at release in United States)

The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg is a 1910 American silent film produced by Kalem Company of New York and shot at the company's "winter studio" in Jacksonville, Florida. Directed by Sidney Olcott, the Civil War drama stars Gene Gauntier, Robert Vignola and JP McGowan.[3][4][5] Gauntier, in addition to performing as the production's title character, is credited with writing its storyline or "scenario".[6]

A full copy of this film, although with Dutch intertitles, is held at the EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam.[5]

Plot

"In the absence of men, a Civil War commander asks his daughter (The Girl Spy) to sabotage a gunpowder transport. The girl disguises herself as a soldier and completes her task. After a dangerous escape, she returns to her crying mother."[6]

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