Held by the Enemy

Name: Held by the Enemy
Cast: Agnes Ayres, Wanda Hawley, Josephine Crowell, Lillian Leighton, Lewis Stone

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During the Civil War, Rachel Hayne, a young widow, is among those "held by the enemy" when her old family home is within the lines occupied by the Northern troops. Protected by Colonel Prescott from looters and the unwelcome attentions of Surgeon Fielding, Rachel begins to fall in love with the gallant Yankee officer. Their romance is disrupted when Rachel's husband Gordon, long reported dead, is captured as a spy and condemned to death.

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Cast & Crew

Director: Donald CrispWriters: Beulah Marie Dix, William Gillette

Agnes Ayres

as Rachel Hayne

Wanda Hawley

as Emmy McCreery

Josephine Crowell

as Sarah Hayne

Lillian Leighton

as Clarissa

Lewis Stone

as Capt. Gordon Haine

Jack Holt

as Col. Charles Prescott

Robert Cain

as Brigade Surgeon Fielding

Walter Hiers

as Thomas Beene

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