06 September 1909 Drama, History, War 10 mins
During the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington is spotted and pursued by a group of enemy soldiers. He takes refuge with a civilian family, but is soon detected. The family and their neighbors must then make plans to see that the important message gets through after all.
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Owen Moore as Colonial Army Messenger
James Kirkwood as Messenger's Father
Mary Pickford as Messenger's Sister
Mack Sennett as Hessian
George Siegmann as Hessian
Kate Bruce as Soldier's Family
Robert Harron as Farmer
Arthur V. Johnson as Hessian
George Nichols as Hessian
Billy Quirk as Hessian
Gertrude Robinson as Soldier's Family
D.W. Griffith Director
Billy Bitzer Director of Photography
Arthur Marvin Director of Photography
D.W. Griffith Writer
Frank E. Woods Writer
Los renegados de Hessia Trailer
1776, or The Hessian Renegades Trailer
United States 06 September 1909
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1909:
05 April 1909
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16 May 1909
Based on characters from Shakespeare's play: When Juliet's father refuses to let Romeo see her, Romeo resorts to extreme measures.
29 November 1909
A wife innocently inspires suspicion by generously giving away some money given to her for a hat.
10 August 1909
A smoker falls asleep, and two mischievious fairies play with his pipe. He discovers this, and imprisons them in a cigar box.
30 August 1909
Tom and Ethel separately decide to go bathing in a river. Pranksters switch their clothes and they each have to dress up as the opposite sex.
04 December 1909
Released in five parts (The Persecution of the Children of Israel by the Egyptians, Forty Years in the Land of Midian, The Plagues of Egypt and the Deliverance of the Hebrews, The Victory of Israel, The Promised Land), 4 December 1909 to 19 February 1910.
19 July 1909
Two miners are fighting over a woman, and one is about to murder the other in his sleep. At the critical moment, the woman introduces her fiancé from the city.
21 August 1909
A story of ancient Rome. The scene of this story is laid in Rome in the days of Nero. Rome has recently suffered conflagrations and other disasters, and Nero, hoping to divert the public wrath from his own misconduct, has encouraged the persecution of the growing sect of Christians.
17 June 1909
Jack Thornton, an American traveler, while touring Europe meets the daughter of an old French nobleman and falls in love with her.
03 May 1909
One of the members of a suicide club learns he has inherited some money, but only after he drew the fatal lot and is expected to kill himself.
22 May 1909
"The Judgment of Solomon" was billed as a Vitagraph High Art Film. Biblical Production. It shared a split-reel with "Jephthah's Daughter, a Biblical Tragedy".
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