Secret Service

Jun 15, 1919

1h 0m

★ 0.0

Overview

Lewis Dumont, a Northern officer in the American Civil War, works undercover behind Confederate lines in an attempt to lead Southern forces away from an area in which a Northern attack is planned. But Dumont falls in love with a Southern girl and when she proves useful to his plan, his conscience begins to tear at him.

Genres

Drama

War

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

Secret Service Trailers

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Cast

Major Lewis K. Dumont

Robert Warwick

Edith Varney

Wanda Hawley

General Harrison Randolph

Theodore Roberts

Mrs. Varney

Edythe Chapman

Lieutenant Howard Varney

Raymond Hatton

Wilfred Varney

Casson Ferguson

Captain Henry Dumont

Robert Cain

Benton Arrelsford

Irving Cummings

Jonas

Guy Oliver

Martha

Lillian Leighton

Lieutenant Maxwell (as Stanley Wheatcroft)

Stanhope Wheatcroft

Lieutenant Foray

Norman Selby

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