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The Despoiler

0.0 60 mins Drama   War   1915
Kay-Bee Pictures   New York Motion Picture  
Director(s): Reginald Barker

Release Date: 15 Wed, Dec 1915

Movie mogul Thomas H. Ince may well have been the director of The Despoiler as indicated by the credits; but since Ince was known far and wide as a glory-hogger, it's also possible that one of his talented lieutenants wielded the megaphone. A Civil War drama, The Despoiler refuses to take sides, demonstrating that there are heroes and villains in both camps. Capturing a small town, Colonel Charles K. French orders his men to reclaim the funds raised for the enemy by the townsfolk. French's drunken, lacivious second-in-command Frank Keenan intends to extort money from the citizens by threatening the virtue of the town's female population.

Casts of The Despoiler

Frank Keenan

as The Emir

Enid Markey

as Sylvia Damien

Charles K. French

as Col. Damien

Roy Laidlaw

as The Mayor

Fanny Midgley

as The Abbess

Aggie Herring

as The Nun (as Agnes Herring)

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