The Challenge Accepted

The Challenge Accepted (1918) is a drama film directed by Edwin L. Hollywood rated 8.0/10.

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.

Cast

Zena Keefe

Sally Haston

Charles Eldridge

John Haston

Russell Simpson

Uncle Zeke Sawyer

Chester Barnett

Steve Carey

Joel Day

Tom Carey

Sidney D'Albrook

Billy Murphy

Jack Hopkins

James Grogan

Warren Cook

Captain Roderick Brooke