The Battle Cry of Peace (1915) J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith Present CHARLES RICHMAN and Other Eminent Vitagraph Stars in The BATTLE CRY of PEACE "A Call To Arms Against War" By J. Stuart Blackton OPERA HOUSE MONDAY, SEPT. 4th (1916) LABOR DAY MATINEE & NIGHT 3 SHOWS - 2:30, 7 and 9 P.M. PRICES: Matinee -- Children 15c  Adults 25c Night -- 25c to all SPECIAL MUSIC A SPECIAL VITAGRAPH BLUE RIBBON FEATURE The BATTLE CRY of PEACE THE GREATEST WAR DRAMA EVER FILMED -- N.Y. American J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith present THE BATTLE CRY of PEACE by J. Stuart Blackton Featuring CHARLES RICHMAN and OTHER EMINENT VITAGRAPH STARS "THE BATTLE CRY OF PEACE" -- Synopsis Hudson Maxim, international authority on arms and ammunition, delivers a lecture graphically describing America's defenseless condition. John Harrison, inspired by Maxim's disclosures and realizing the awful consequences to which our national unpreparedness may lead, resolves to consecrate his every effort to the cause of adequate defense. He is engaged to Virginia Vandergriff, whose father is an advocate of national disarmament and "Peace at any Price". John makes a fruitless effort to show Vandergriff the fallacy of his stand. Vandergriff's friend, Emanon, ostensibly a peace propagandist, but in reality a foreign spy, is the head of a band of conspirators plotting the invasion of America. The invaders approach New York. The news reaches a huge peace meeting at which Vandergriff is a speaker. In the midst of this meeting a shell crashes through the walls of the building. The battleships of the enemy, out of range of the guns of Forts Hamilton, Hancock and Wadsworth, are able to bombard New York. Shells are devastating the buildings in the downtown district. Homes are desecrated; children slain without mercy. Terror reigns. John's mother and sister are killed. Vandergriff is shot in the street. John is bayoneted in defense of the girl he loves. As a climax to the horror, Virginia's mother, to avoid disgrace at the hands of the enemy, kills her two daughters and herself. An allegorical masterpiece is shown contrasting Columbia, crushed, bleeding the trampled upon by a merciless foe with Columbia as she should be -- proud, commanding, supreme. "Yes, there shall be peace -- but peace with plenty -- peace with honor". with Charles Richman, L. Rogers Lytton and James Morrison. Directed by J. Stuart Blackton and Wilfrid North. Vitagraph. More Information on this film...                                      This work (The Battle Cry of Peace (1915), by Vitagraph), identified by Bruce Calvert, is free of known copyright restrictions. Books (none) Last Modified September 3, 2024