23 September 1913 Drama 15 mins
Tom Chatterton is called a coward because he will not enlist in the Home Guard during the Civil War -- his mother is dying and he does not wish to leave while she is still alive. When she dies and the Yankees attack, he seizes command of the Home Guard and leads them to victory, proving himself a hero and dying in the process.
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Tom Chatterton as Burton
Charles Edler as The Old Slave
Minnie Devereaux as The Old Slave's Wife
United States 23 September 1913
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1913:
23 July 1913
Mildred is staying with her grandfather, Civil War veteran Jabez Burr, when she receives a letter from her father.
14 April 1913
A Keystone Kops short about a landlord discovering three "anner-kist" tenants building a bomb.
23 October 1913
The scene is laid for a quiet little wedding. The guests are waiting for Fatty and an ancient maid to be made one.
11 May 1913
Outside the door of the home of a sculptor and his mother, fell a poor, friendless young girl. They took the girl in and cared for her, and as time went on the mother began to regard her as her daughter.
26 November 1913
"You're worth your weight in gold!" This is what Charles Watson, a young spendthrift, told every girl he met.
01 April 1913
A girl, beautiful but heartless and ambitious, was the daughter of a poor miner and was devotedly loved by a man in her own station of life.
01 February 1913
Broncho Billy runs into trouble in a bar when he gets into a confrontation with a bully. Since the bully has a gun and Billy doesn't, he's forced to endure the bully's humiliating tactics until he manages to get away.
04 August 1913
A lazy sculptor squanders his advance and has to think outside the box to meet his deadline. At short notice, the sculptor has received the task of carving a copy of the famous statue “The Swimmer”.
07 May 1913
A man rents out his uncle's room to all kinds of people.
19 May 1913
Broken by grief after his mother's death, Olaf becomes a wanderer. He is treated cruelly until he is given a meal by a woman at the homestead where she lives with her husband and baby.
21 July 1913
First Pa said Theodore was a lizzy-nizzy. He let that go, but when Pa said he was too sporty because he spent a nickel for a ticket for a voting contest for the fairest girl in town, Pa's daughter, of course, then Theodore decided to settle Pa.
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