The Littlest Rebel
America's Little Sweetheart . . . The Dimpled Darling You Love in the Greatest of Civil War Dramas !
A sentimental Civil War family drama built around a child's innocent plea to save her father, blending patriotic sentiment with tap-dancing charm and melodramatic stakes.
Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the officers are to be executed. Virgie and Uncle Billy beg President Lincoln to intercede.
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