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The Challenge Accepted

The Challenge Accepted (1918)

0h 50m | PG-13

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In the Blue Ridge Mountains Postmaster's daughter Sally Haston loves Steve Carey, but wants him to enlist and fight the Germans during the Great War. Steve is unhappy at the training camp Steve argues with his roughneck tentmate Billy Murphy. When Steve deserts to visit Sally she takes him back to the camp, where Captain Roderick Brooke sympathetically explains the purpose of the war. Later, moonshiner James Grogan holes up with a gun to escape the draft and holds Sally prisoner. Her father organizes a posse, but Steve, home on leave, rescues her and announces that he is leaving for Europe to fight for democracy.

Director: Edwin L. Hollywood

Studio: Arden Photoplays

Genre: Drama

Video: 720p

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Cast

Zena Keefe

Zena Keefe

as Sally Haston

Charles Eldridge

Charles Eldridge

as John Haston

Russell Simpson

Russell Simpson

as Uncle Zeke Sawyer

Chester Barnett

Chester Barnett

as Steve Carey

Joel Day

Joel Day

as Tom Carey

Sidney D'Albrook

Sidney D'Albrook

as Billy Murphy