Behind the Lines (1916)
Melodrama | 11 September 1916
Director:
Henry McRaeWriters:
Walter Woods, Mary RiderProduction Company:
Bluebird Photoplays, Inc.The 22 July 1916 Motion Picture News announced that Henry McRae was currently filming Behind the Lines at the Universal City studios. Edwin N. Wallock, playing "General Dominquez," had himself made up to look like Mexican Army General Alvaro Obregon, leader of the Mexican Revolution at the time this film was made.
According to the 2 September 1916 Moving Picture World, "Mr. McRae took his company to Lower California, where the military features were pictured in authentic locations." Lower California is more commonly known as the state of Baja California, Mexico. (Another item in the same issue more directly stated that McRae had taken "his large company to Mexico for authentic locations.) The first item also gave 18 September 1916 as an opening date for the film, and noted that the scenario was adapted from Mary Rider's "published novel," although no such book could be found.
The 5 August 1915 Moving Picture Weekly reported that "a cartridge clip belt once owned by Gen. Francisco [Pancho] Villa" was used in Behind the Lines. Villa had declared that "it was too heavy and gave it to Ivor McFadden, one of the Universal City actors, who at that time was filming pictures in Mexico. McFadden loaned it to [Ray] Hanford for use in the film play."
According to the Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database, a fragment of this film is extant. ...
The 22 July 1916 Motion Picture News announced that Henry McRae was currently filming Behind the Lines at the Universal City studios. Edwin N. Wallock, playing "General Dominquez," had himself made up to look like Mexican Army General Alvaro Obregon, leader of the Mexican Revolution at the time this film was made.
According to the 2 September 1916 Moving Picture World, "Mr. McRae took his company to Lower California, where the military features were pictured in authentic locations." Lower California is more commonly known as the state of Baja California, Mexico. (Another item in the same issue more directly stated that McRae had taken "his large company to Mexico for authentic locations.) The first item also gave 18 September 1916 as an opening date for the film, and noted that the scenario was adapted from Mary Rider's "published novel," although no such book could be found.
The 5 August 1915 Moving Picture Weekly reported that "a cartridge clip belt once owned by Gen. Francisco [Pancho] Villa" was used in Behind the Lines. Villa had declared that "it was too heavy and gave it to Ivor McFadden, one of the Universal City actors, who at that time was filming pictures in Mexico. McFadden loaned it to [Ray] Hanford for use in the film play."
According to the Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database, a fragment of this film is extant.
During a rebellion in Mexico, Nina Garcia, a diplomat's daughter, is forced to become a spy for the revolutionaries in order to save her sister Camilla, who is being held hostage after their brother, Carlos, has been shot. Nina works as a nurse in a military hospital and steals papers for the rebels, but officials finally discover her involvement in enemy espionage. Just as soldiers arrest her, she performs an experiment on herself, hoping to prove the worth of Dr. Ralph Hamlin's serum for gangrene. Unimpressed by Nina's bravery and unmoved by Ralph's pleas for a pardon, the government orders her shot after her recovery from the injection. Fortunately, United States troops, reacting to an incursion into an American border town by Mexican rebels, arrive and save Nina from ...
During a rebellion in Mexico, Nina Garcia, a diplomat's daughter, is forced to become a spy for the revolutionaries in order to save her sister Camilla, who is being held hostage after their brother, Carlos, has been shot. Nina works as a nurse in a military hospital and steals papers for the rebels, but officials finally discover her involvement in enemy espionage. Just as soldiers arrest her, she performs an experiment on herself, hoping to prove the worth of Dr. Ralph Hamlin's serum for gangrene. Unimpressed by Nina's bravery and unmoved by Ralph's pleas for a pardon, the government orders her shot after her recovery from the injection. Fortunately, United States troops, reacting to an incursion into an American border town by Mexican rebels, arrive and save Nina from execution.
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