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  • The Red Cross Nurse (1914)
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The Red Cross Nurse (1914)
Short | Short, Drama
Yvette de Breuil, an orphan, receives a legacy amounting to $3,000 from the estate of her father. With this money she takes up aviation. At the aviation school she meets and finally becomes engaged to Serge Daniloff, the son of the ...See moreYvette de Breuil, an orphan, receives a legacy amounting to $3,000 from the estate of her father. With this money she takes up aviation. At the aviation school she meets and finally becomes engaged to Serge Daniloff, the son of the commanding officer of the Servian army. The young officer writes his father that he is engaged to the beautiful young French aviatress and instead of receiving his father's congratulations, he is told that a Servian officer can marry none but a Servian girl, and furthermore as Turkey and Servia have declared war he must join his regiment at once. Yvette in order to be as near her fiancé as possible, enlists in the Red Cross Society and starts immediately for the front. Pietro, General Daniloff's trusted servant, is a Turkish spy and having overheard the Servian army's plans starts to inform the Turkish authorities. He is successful and is entrusted to take a message containing the information he has stolen to the commander of the Turkish outposts. While on this perilous mission he is shot by a Servian outpost and taken to the field hospital, where Yvette is detailed to attend to his wounds. In his delirium he mentions the fact that he has an important paper which must be delivered to the Turkish commander. Yvette, realizing he is not a Turk, believes he must be a spy, so searches his clothing. She discovers a letter containing the positions of the Servian army as well as one ordering all Turkish troops to assist the bearer of this letter in every way. She knows what it would mean to her lover and his father should the Turkish commander receive this document, so putting it in the sleeve of her uniform she starts for the Servian lines. She is captured by a Turkish outpost who brings her before their commander. He takes no chances and has her put in prison as a spy. Her guard, happy in the thought that the prisoner is only a woman, is not overcautious. She realizes this and upon one of his visits she throws her cape over his head and escapes, only to be discovered by the sentries, who demand her to stop, but thinking only of her lover, she vaults from a high bridge into a river, swims ashore and going to the cavalry stable steals an officer's horse. Well on her way, she meets a small body of Turkish cavalry who pursue her. One of them overtakes her and in the fight to unseat her, both she and the soldier are thrown from their horses. The soldier is killed, but she is merely stunned and keeping her nerve, puts on the dead soldier's uniform, thereby escaping the rest of the squad who were in the chase. Yvette decides the safest way to deliver the message is by aeroplane so she goes to the Turkish aviation camp where she produces the letter from the Turkish general stating the bearer of the letter is to receive all possible assistant from the Turkish troops. She is immediately given an aeroplane and when about to land within the Servian lines is taken for a Turkish officer and fired upon. She is saved from being injured due to the machine being protected by armor. Yvette is taken before General Daniloff and when his son recognizes her, he is ready to take her in his arms, but the old general orders him to "attention." Upon learning what he has accomplished the general takes her in his own arms and is very willing that his son marry such a brave girl as she has proved herself to be, even though she is not a Servian. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Joseph Levering
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Updated Oct 19, 1914
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Oct 19, 1914 (United States)

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