Operator 13
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Plot
The Civil War, shortly after the Battle of Bull Run, the Union forces are in retreat. In a US Military Hospital, the Pauline Cushman Players are performing for wounded soldiers. Pauline the spy who works for Allen Pinkerton persuades Gail to become a spy for the Union cause, Operator 13.Gail accompanies Pauline as her coloured maid and while washing General Stuart’s clothes, hears he will attend a ball that night. At the ball, Captain Gaillard suspects that Pauline is a spy and finds evidence in her room. Pauline, trying to flee is arrested and is to be a witness against Pauline who is later sentenced to death. Both women manage to escape to the Union lines.
Pinkerton decides to use Pauline to trap Gaillard, and part of the plan, she jeers at a parade of Union soldiers and is thought to be a heroine in the southern newspapers. Gail, as Anne Claibourne is pardoned by Lincoln and heads south where Captain Gaillard is attracted to her. However later Gail is told by Stuart’s groom, a fellow spy, that she is known to be a spy and she flees in a Confederate uniform. Galliard cannot believe she is a spy and finds her but she strikes him with a gun and rides off. Others start in pursuit.
She and the groom hide in a farm house where Galliard finds her and she pours out her love for him. A group of Union soldiers pass by and groom rushes out to them, forgetting his Confederate clothes and is shot down. The two hide in a well as the farm house is searched. They later part and she watches as he heads southwards back to his own lines.
Cast
- Marion DaviesMarion DaviesMarion Davies was an American film actress. Davies is best remembered for her relationship with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, as her high-profile social life often obscured her professional career....
as Gail Loveless (Operator 13) - Gary CooperGary CooperFrank James Cooper, known professionally as Gary Cooper, was an American film actor. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited to the many Westerns he made...
as Captain Jack Galliard - Jean ParkerJean Parker-Career:Born as Lois Mae Green in Deer Lodge, Montana, she appeared in 70 movies from 1932 through 1966. She was discovered by Ida Koverman, secretary to MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer, after she saw a poster featuring Parker portraying Father Time. She attended Pasadena schools and graduated from John...
as Eleanor Shackleford - Katherine Alexander as Pauline Cushman
- Ted HealyTed HealyTed Healy was an American vaudeville performer, comedian, and actor. He is chiefly remembered today as the original creator of the Three Stooges, but had a successful stage and film career of his own.- Early life :...
as Doctor Hitchcock - Russell Hardie as Lt. Gus Littledale
- Henry Wadsworth as Capt. John Pelham
- Douglas Dimbrille as General Stuart
- Willard RobertsonWillard RobertsonWillard Robertson was an American actor. He appeared in 146 films between 1924 and 1948. He was born in Runnels, Texas and died in Hollywood, California.-Selected filmography:*Graft *Shanghaied Love...
as Capt. Cornelius Channing - Fuzzy KnightFuzzy KnightJohn Forrest "Fuzzy" Knight was an American film and television actor. He appeared in over 180 films between 1929 and 1967, usually as a cowboy hero's sidekick.-Biography:...
as Pvt. Sweeney (Stuart’s groom) - Sidney TolerSidney TolerSidney Hooper Toler was an American actor, playwright, and theatre director. Of primarily Scottish ancestry, he was the second non-Asian actor to play the role of Charlie Chan.-Early life and career:...
as Major Allen Pinkerton - Robert McWadeRobert McWadeRobert McWade , was an American stage and film actor. From 1903-1927, he appeared in at least 38 Broadway productions, his last being The Devil In The Cheese, with Bela Lugosi and Fredric March...
as Colonel Sharpe - Marjorie GatesonMarjorie GatesonMarjorie Augusta Gateson , was a character actress in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s....
as Mrs Shackleford - Wade BotelerWade BotelerWade Boteler was an American film actor. He appeared in over 430 films between 1919 and 1943.He was born in Santa Ana, California, and died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack.-Selected filmography:...
as Officer Gaston - Walter LongWalter Long (actor)Walter Huntley Long was an American character actor in films from the 1910s. He was born in Nashua, New Hampshire.-Career:He appeared in many D. W...
as Operator 55