War Correspondents (1913)

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Synopsis by Hal Erickson

WWI was still a year in the future when the four-reel Danish melodrama War Correspondents hit the big screen. At the time, the Danish film output was artistically vastly superior to the general run of American films, so one can imagine that this ambitious effort was quite awe-inspiring to the average Yankee filmgoer. The story focuses on Sonia, a peasant girl living on the Turkish-Bulgarian border. When war breaks out, Sonia's vacillating sympathies cause her to be arrested as a suspected spy. She manages to evade her captors in a series of hairbreadth escapes, displaying an athletic prowess that rivalled any American movie-serial heroine (she also showed her bare legs more than once, which earned the muted admiration of the reviewer for Variety). The film comes to a spectacular climax as Sonia masterminds the destruction of a huge enemy airship. Though overshadowed by the leading lady, the "war correspondent" hero also demonstrates his courage and grit at periodic intervals -- that is, when he isn't sitting at his desk and calmly puffing on his ever-present cigar. War Correspondents was distributed in the U.S. by Exclusive Features.