The Informer

The Informer — Plot

The young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his brother to take care of his fatherless sweetheart during the perilous times which are to follow. But the brother weakens and fails to be true to his trust. He permits her to believe that her lover is dead. Caught in the neighborhood, however, between the lines of the enemy, the brother appears before them at the crucial moment. In retaliation the false brother turns informer. Both forces are aroused to arms and during the attack upon the girl defending her wounded lover and family alone in the negro's cabin retribution comes in the form of a stray bullet.

• Release date
• November 21, 1912
• Runtime
• 18 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• D.W. Griffith

The Informer — Cast

Walter Miller The Confederate Captain Mary Pickford The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart Henry B. Walthall The False Brother Kate Bruce The Mother Dorothy Gish The Southern Girl Robert Harron The Southern Boy Harry Carey The Confederate Corporal W. Chrystie Miller Union Soldier