The Challenge Accepted

The Challenge Accepted 1918 Directed by Edwin L. Hollywood

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.

Country USA

Production Country USA

Language English

Spoken Language No Language

Gnere Drama

Production Company Arden Photoplays

Release Date 29 December 1918

50 mins