Wife or Country
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Genre Drama, War, Short | Director E. Mason Hopper Distributed by Triangle Film Corporation Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Language Silent (English intertitles) Writer Harry Mestayer , Charles J. Wilson Release date December 29, 1918 (1918-12-29) Genres Silent film, Drama, Black-and-white Cast Gloria Swanson (Sylvia Hamilton), Charles West , Gretchen Lederer , Jack Richardson , Harry Mestayer Similar movies Beyond the Rocks (1922), Curtain at Eight (1933), Their Own Desire (1929), Janice Meredith (1924), Hungry Hearts (1922) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wife or Country is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by E. Mason Hopper and starring Gloria Swanson in her last role for Triangle Film Corporation. It is not known whether the film currently survives.
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Plot
Based upon a review in a film magazine, Gretchen (Lederer) has reclaimed husband Dale Barker (Mestayer) from a drinking habit, and he has become a lawyer working with the Department of Justice in hunting down German propagandists. Before their marriage, Gretchen had been involved with propagandists and cannot now extricate herself, and she fears discovery by her husband. She is jealous of Sylvia Hamilton (Swanson), Dale's stenographer, and plans on bringing her under suspicion. When arrested as a spy, Sylvia turns over a mass of evidence, some of which incriminates Gretchen, placing Dale between love of country and loyalty to his wife.
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