The Challenge Accepted (1918)
In the Blue Ridge Mountains Postmaster's daughter Sally Haston loves Steve Carey, but wants him to enlist and fight the Germans during the Great War. Steve is unhappy at the training camp Steve argues with his roughneck tentmate Billy Murphy. When Steve deserts to visit Sally she takes him back to the camp, where Captain Roderick Brooke sympathetically explains the purpose of the war. Later, moonshiner James Grogan holes up with a gun to escape the draft and holds Sally prisoner. Her father organizes a posse, but Steve, home on leave, rescues her and announces that he is leaving for Europe to fight for democracy.
- Date of release
- 1918-12-29
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 50m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Edwin L. Hollywood
Casting
- Zena Keefe — Sally Haston
- Charles Eldridge — John Haston
- Russell Simpson — Uncle Zeke Sawyer
- Chester Barnett — Steve Carey
- Joel Day — Tom Carey
- Sidney D'Albrook — Billy Murphy
- Jack Hopkins — James Grogan
- Warren Cook — Captain Roderick Brooke
Interesting facts
The Challenge Accepted is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Edwin L. Hollywood and starring Zena Keefe, Charles Eldridge and Russell Simpson.
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