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Movie Detail Name Occurs Before Title Offscreen Credit Print Viewed By AFI The Kaiser's Shadow, or the Triple Cross Director: R. William Neill (Dir) Release Date:   1 Jul 1918 Duration (in feet):   4,379 Duration (in reels):   5 Print this page Display Movie Summary Cast:   Dorothy Dalton (Paula Harris)       Thurston Hall (Hugo Wagner)       Edward Cecil (Clement Boyd)       Leota Lorraine (Dorothy Robinson)       Otto Hoffman (Frederick Fischer)       Charles French (William Kremlin)   Summary: On the day of his marriage to Dorothy Robinson, Clement Boyd, the inventor of a powerful new rifle, is kidnapped by German agent Paula Harris and taken to the home of master spy William Kremlin. Another agent, Hugo Wagner, brings Dorothy to the mysterious house to witness Clement's execution, should he fail to deliver the design of his weapon to Kremlin. Frederick Fischer, one of Kremlin's men, searches Clement, but the plans are nowhere to be found, having been concealed by Paula, who actually works for the French government. While Fischer is threatening to inoculate Clement with a deadly form of bacteria, Paula goes to retrieve the plans but finds them missing. Just before the needle pierces Clement's arm, United States Secret Service forces arrive in a raid that Paula had arranged earlier. Hugo, who, unknown to Paula, serves in the Secret Service, pursues the fleeing Kremlin, and when his gun jams, Paula shoots the German. With the plans safely in the possession of American agents, Hugo and Paula confess their love for each other.  Production Company: Thomas H. Ince Corp.   Distribution Company: Famous Players-Lasky Corp.; Paramount Pictures   Director: R. William Neill (Dir) Producer: Thomas H. Ince (Pres)   Thomas H. Ince (Supv) Photography: John S. Stumar (Cam) Art Direction: G. Harold Percival (Art dir)   Irvin J. Martin (Art titles) Special Effects: Irvin J. Martin (Spec eff) Country: United States Source Text: Based on the serial story "The Triple Cross" by Octavus Roy Cohen, J. U. Giesy in All-Story Weekly (30 Mar-20 Apr 1918). Authors: J. U. Giesy   Octavus Roy Cohen Copyright Claimant Copyright Date Copyright Number Thomas H. Ince Corp. 15/6/1918 dd/mm/yyyy LP12555 Physical Properties: b&w:   Si:   Genre: Drama   Drama Sub-Genre: Espionage   World War I   Subjects (Major): Foreign agents   Germans   Inventors   Kidnapping   Secret agents   Secret plans   Spies   Subjects (Minor): Disease   Executions   France. Intelligence Service   Inventions   Rifles   Secret Service Note: Contemporary reviews list the name of Dorothy Dalton's character as Paula Harris and of Thurston Hall's character as Hugo Wagner. Paramount studio records, however, list these character names as Martha Gerhardt, also known as Doris Gray, and Hugo Mueller, respectively.  Bibliographic Sources:   Date   Page ETR   6 Jul 18   p. 399. Motog   13 Jul 18   p. 56. MPN   6 Jul 18   p. 66, 114 MPW   21 Sep 18   p. 1776. NYDM   13 Jul 18   p. 54. Variety   28 Jun 18   p. 28. Wid's   23 Jun 18   pp. 19-20. Display Movie Summary

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