Adele

Adele

NR 1919 · 66 min · Drama

Adele Bleneau is a young nurse who assists her father, a renowned surgeon/. While in Washington, DC, she meets and falls in love with a British army officer, Capt. Fraser. While traveling by ship to France with her father, she meets Count von Schulling, a German diplomat who is an acquaintance of her father. Von Schulling falls for the pretty young Adele. While in France, Adele organizes a rescue party to save Capt. Fraser, who has been on a secret mission behind enemy lines and has been wounded. In a twist of fate, Adele finds the wounded Fraser and takes him to a hospital, but Count von Schuling, who has also been wounded, is placed in the same room as Fraser. When the hospital is overrun by German forces, Adele is placed in a delicate position by von Sculling: either spy for the Germans or Fraser will be shot.

Directed by Wallace Worsley · Written by Jack Cunningham

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Kitty Gordon Adele Bleneau
Mahlon Hamilton Capt. Fraser
Wedgwood Nowell Count von Schulling
Joseph J. Dowling Dr. Bleneau

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