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File: The Crisis (1916).webm
Author: James Colin Campbell
Publisher: Selig Polyscope Company
Year: 1916
PD: PD/US|1947|film=yes
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Cat: Drama film, Films based on books, Films with historical settings, War film
00:06
THE CRISIS
A PLAY IN THREE ATS
FROM THE BOOK BY Winston Churchill
DIRECTION OF COLIN CAMPBELL
PRODUCED BY
THE SELIG POLYSCOPE CO.
COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY THE SELIG POLYSCOPE CO.
01:08
The South wind bore to the ears of the world the wail of the slave.
01:18
And the North wind raged with the protest against the barter of mankind.
01:26
ABOLISH SLAVERY
01:40
—and borne on the wings of the West wind the ceaseless query: "Shall the new states be slave or free?"
02:07
Colonel Carvel of St. Louis, his daughter, Virginia, and Judge Silas Whipple.
Colonel Carvel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
Matt Snyder | |
Virginia Carvel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
Bessie Eyton | |
Silas Whipple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
George Fawcett |
03:04
"Play my favorite, Jinny."
03:29
Lead Thou me on;
The night is dark, and I am far from home,
Lead Thou me on;
Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see
The distant scene; one step enough for me.
03:46
The music carries him back.
03:58
Lead Thou me on;
The night is dark, and I am far from home,
Lead Thou me on;
Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see
The distant scene; one step enough for me.
05:49
Eliphalet Hopper, of Massachusetts, arrives in St. Louis in search of his fortune.
Eliphalet Hopper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
Frank Weed |
06:10
"You're a fine specimen of a Yankee."
Capt. Lige Brent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
Will Machin |
06:23
PRIVATE
OFFICE
06:31
My Dear Judge Whipple, >/b We gratefully accept your kind offer to take Stephen into your office. >/b Your friendship for my dear gone husband is very precious to me and does much to alleviate our grief, as soon as our affairs will permit we will come South.
I am yours very truly
Elizabeth B[...]
07:19
"Engage rooms for young Brice and his mother at the Crane boarding house."
07:30
GARVEL
&
COMPANY
Importers
08:08
"Tell Mr. Hood to put this boy to work."
08:22
JOHN HOOD
MANAGER
08:29
The old friends have their daily quarrel over slavery.
08:34
SILAS
WHIPPLE
09:24
Virginia visits her father's office.
09:27
Private
09:55
"Do you work here?"
10:01
"Find my father and tell him Miss Carvel is here."
10:08
"I ain't no servant."
10:25
Clarence Colfax, Virginia's cousin and ardent suitor.
Clarence Colfax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
Marshall Neilan |
11:16
"It's only Clarence, he is always wanting to fight with someone."
12:00
The Brices arrive at Mrs. Crane's "New England Boarding House."
Stephen Brice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
Thomas Santschi | |
Mrs. Brice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
Eugenie Besserer |
12:11
"This, mother, is our all---a trifle over nine hundred dollars----I'll bank it on the way to Judge Whipple's."
12:44
Hodge's Dry Goods Store
SLAVE AUCTION
THIS MORNING AT 11 O'CLOCK
FROM THE COURT HOUSE STEPS
All property of the late G. W. Scales
12:50
"Father, please buy Betty Scales' quadroon, Hester, for me."
13:01
The horrors of slavery are borne in upon Stephen at the slave auction.
13:35
"I'll buy her for you, Jinny. Mother promised you a present and you shall have her."
13:46
"Oh, mistah, is you gwineter stan' heah an' see ma chile sol' down de river?"
14:53
"How dare that Yankee bid against Clarence."
14:55
Some weeks later the Brices rent one of Mr. Brinsmade's cottages.
15:21
Mr Stephen Brice,
of33 Olive St.
15:41
Miss Virginia Carvel requests the pleasure of Mr Stephen Brice's presence at her birthday party Thursday evening the 10th inst. at
Carvel House
16:22
The night of the party.
17:16
"Honey, I was thinking of your mother."
17:29
The Party.
18:28
"Why did you bring that damned Yankee here?"
20:29
When the guests had gone.
20:39
Summer, intolerable summer, is upon the city.
20:43
Judge Whipple broadens Stephen's education.
20:55
"Take tonight's train for Freeport, find Abe Lincoln, and give him this."
21:28
Freeport, Illinois. The night of the great Lincoln-Douglas debate.
22:15
Dear Abe— >/b I want my young friend to meet and know you. I like him, send him back to me a good Republican.
22:57
DOUGLAS.
DOUGLAS
23:44
The great question.
23:47
LINCOLNDOUGLAS
24:29
24:47
"Can the people of a United States Territory in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States exclude slavery from its limits, prior to the formation of a State Constitution?"
25:12
"This nation cannot exist half slave and half free. Now, let Mr. Douglas explain away the crisis if he can."
25:45
Stephen A. Douglas—states rights—fails to convince.
26:50
Steve parts with Lincoln.
27:01
"Tell me, Steve---weren't you sorry for me last night?"
27:09
"I never shall be again, sir."
27:18
"Pray God that you may feel sorry for me again. Goodbye, Steve, don't forget me."
27:35
Meanwhile, at Glencoe, Col. Carvel's summer home.
27:56
Col. Comyn Carvel, >/b Gloscoe, >/b Dear Sir: >/b [...] is my duty to inform you that Judge Whipple is quite ill. Doctors says the host in the city will kill him if he stays. He calls constantly for Miss Carvel.
28:25
The Judge yields.
29:53
LAW
OFFICES
30:12
Aug 20th
My dear Mr. Brice, >/b I take pleasure in extending you an invitation to spend the weeks end at glencoe. >/b Please bring Judge Whipple's mail.
30:45
"Mr. Brice is coming this morning, Jinny."
31:52
"Now tell me what you think of this fellow, Lincoln."
32:37
"And here is the article I wrote for the 'Missouri Gazette' on the debate."
32:48
"Juleps."
34:00
"A house divided against itself must fall!"
34:39
"I'm sorry but I must go back to town tonight."
35:57
"I should like to remain, sir, but mother is all alone."
36:15
"I asked him to stay, but he spurned the privilege."
36:31
"He went back because his mother was all alone."
36:45
The weeks pass quietly in old St. Louis.
37:00
Naming of Candidates.
INTENSE ENTHUSIASM.
The Struggle between Seward and Lincoln.
LINCOLN NOMINATED.
ONLY THREE BALLOTINGS HAD.
THE VICE-PRESIDENCY.
Hon. Hannibal Hamlin Nominated.
HOW THE NOMINATIONS ARE RECEIVED.
37:20
"I'm through with fooling now, Jinny, I'm going to be a man."
37:32
The old friendship bears a heavy strain.
38:13
"Lige, you're going to vote for Lincoln, aren't you?"
38:22
"If Lincoln is elected, the South leaves the Union."
38:46
"Silas, if you won't drink it for me perhaps you will drink it for---Abraham Lincoln."
38:56
"I reckon I wouldn't be much use to Abe if I took that."
39:49
Anne Brinsmade plans a costume ball.
40:07
Virginia Carvel
Stephen Brice
Maud Catherwood
Spencer Catherwood
40:12
"If that man comes, I won't. He's a Black Republican."
40:25
"I don't think he can."
40:38
The Costume Ball.
42:05
My dear Miss Brinsmade >/b I might be delayed a bit tonight but will try and be there as soon as I can leave the meeting. I will race my grandfather's uniform as you suggested.
Miss Anne Brinsmade
St. Louis, Mo.
42:38
My dear Colfax >/b Please come to my office at once + sign the deed to the [...] property. It must be done tonight + will keep you only a moment.
Mr. Clarence Colfax
43:06
Under the spell of the night.
43:26
"I---I thought you were my cousin---what must you think of me?"
43:37
"I hope you will forgive me---Virginia. I meet you only to anger you---good night, Miss Carvel."
44:35
LINCOLN
ELECTED
45:00
Dear Jack >/b Lincoln is elected.
46:07
The Auction.
46:24
Judge Whipple buys Col. Carvel's furniture but keeps only one piece.
46:46
"Where's my piano?"
47:55
"Jinny's!"
48:01
May 10, 1861
Comyn Carvel, Esq., >/b Dear sir >/b Come to Jefferson City at once. Important to the cause.
48:47
"Did I ever strike you as a marryin' man?"
48:59
"The lady is YOU."
49:09
"Your father's a beggar but for me. I am Carvel and Co. Go and ask him if I'm lying."
49:44
"Is it true you have borrowed money from this man?"
49:54
"It takes just a minute to walk to that fence, sir. If you are longer I reckon you'll never get past it."
50:23
"Honey, I reckon we're just as poor as white trash."
50:53
Stephen goes too.
51:48
"My country needs me, honey."
52:35
On June 22nd, the Seventh Missouri Regiment starts to dig a tunnel under Ft. Jackson.
53:06
3 P. M., June 25th, a deathlike stillness pervades the whole command, then---the mine beneath Ft. Jackson lets go.
54:44
"General, we are out of percussion caps. I know where some are stored in a shack across the river, can I get them?"
55:47
Night falls.
57:05
Another day of carnage dawns.
57:35
The men in the lines leap from their places and charge in the face of a murderous fire.
58:29
On July 3rd, gallant Vicksburg falls.
58:33
The lurid flames of bursting shells from Admiral Porter's fleet light up the city.
59:14
Brice's influence with Sherman secures a safe passage home for Colfax.
59:39
"Miss Jinny, they done brought Massa Clarence home."
1:00:28
WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
To St Louis MoTelegraph from Vicksbg Miss >/b Mrs. S. A. Brice— >/b Your son slightly wounded invalided house should arrive Wednesday
1:01:05
Convalescent.
1:01:10
"Do you love Brice, Jinny?"
1:01:22
"I hate him, Jinny, but he saved my life. He loves you, yet he sent me home to you."
1:01:33
"Love a Yankee? Never!"
1:01:52
Home again.
1:02:11
Elsewhere in the field, the Colonel fights and starves.
1:02:19
JUDGE WHIPPLE SERIOUSLY ILL
Judge Silas Whipple is sinking fast. He continually talks of his friends of other days. He suffered a relapse during the night and there is little or no hope for his recovery, although [...]
1:03:08
"Jinny, I'm exchanged and am going back to the front."
1:03:17
"Will you be my wife at the end of the war?"
1:03:36
J. J. COWAN
COTTON
BUYER.
UP ☜
STAIRS
1:04:55
"Comyn, you are a man of unstained honor. I ask no questions. You are safe with me."
1:07:03
"His Desk!"
1:07:25
Stephen Brice
1:08:18
"I thank you, Capt. Brice, for saving my life."
1:08:28
"It is to her your thanks are due. I believe I am not going too far when I congratulate you both."
1:08:49
"My father is in that room."
1:09:01
"What Dr. Polk sanctions is not for me to question."
1:09:39
"You were my friend when I had no other. May God spare your life for Jinny."
1:09:54
"Would you like to see a clergyman?"
1:10:03
"No, madam, you are near enough to God for me."
1:10:09
"I was sick and ye visited me."
1:10:29
"Goodbye, Stephen. Hold the image of Abraham Lincoln in front of you. You are a man after his own heart, and----and mine."
1:11:25
"Will you play my hymn, my dear, once more----once more?"
1:12:21
Lead Thou me on;
The night is dark, and I am far from home,
Lead Thou me on;
Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see
The distant scene; one step enough for me.
1:14:05
"You'll marry me now, I call'ate, or I'll have your father hung."
1:14:34
"I don't want to see you hung, but there's just one consideration that will stop me, that's your gal."
1:14:48
"Hopper, I know you! I can prove that you have had traitorous dealings with the confederacy. If General Sherman learns it you go to government prison. Now go!"
1:15:49
Clarence Colfax is court-martialed as a spy.
1:16:05
The field of war again.
1:16:36
"Send word to Jinny, my Jinny."
1:18:14
Three days later Stephen sees Lincoln again.
1:18:38
"Mr. President, I want to ask you to save the life of an officer who is being held as a spy. Colonel Colfax of St. Louis."
1:18:54
"He's the young chap who is going to marry Virginia Carvel, isn't he?"
1:19:09
"You wait in the other room, Steve."
1:19:28
"It's a matter of life and death. I thought your president would see anyone."
1:20:23
"Sit down, Virginia."
1:20:46
"Tell me about your cousin. Are you going to marry him?"
1:20:57
"No, Mr. Lincoln. I was, but I don't love him."
1:21:38
"The officer who saw Colonel Colfax captured is here. He too defended him and asked me to pardon him."
1:22:13
"I am sparing his life, because the time for which we have been waiting and longing is now at hand. The time to be merciful. Let us all thank God for it."
1:22:25
"How I wish that all my people in the South might see you as I have seen you today."
1:22:38
"Virginia, I have not suffered by the South, I have suffered with the South. Your sorrow has been my sorrow, and your pain has been my pain."
1:23:44
"You loved that flag, Virginia, may you always love it. May the day come when this nation, North and South, may look back upon it with reverence."
1:24:00
"We're not going to hang the rebels, Steve, we're going to hang on to 'em."
1:24:15
"And if you have the sense I think you have, you'll hang on too."
1:25:09
"Do you love me, Jinny?"
1:25:19
"I have loved you always. I fought against it but it was in vain."
1:25:34
At Glencoe again.
1:26:04
1:26:20
In the hush of the last night two united hearts, symbols of the reunited nation, bow down to the man of sorrows.
1:27:05
The End.
1:27:08
PASSED
BY THE
NATIONAL BOARD
OF
REVIEW
Ganston Brenton
CHAIRMAN
OFFICIAL STAMP
REG. U. S. PAT. OFF.