The Coward

Frank (Charles Ray) loses his nerve while everybody else in his Virginia town is volunteering, visiting his girlfriend (Margaret Gibson) and mother (Gertrude Claire) as he hurries home, as the Civil War begins, in Thomas Ince's The Coward, 1915.

Minutes into the film, introducing romantic leads, Charles Ray as Frank, Margaret Gibson as "The Girl," Amy, then back to his parents (Frank Keenan, Gertrude Claire), whom we've already met, and who have just learned that the South is going to war, in Thomas Ince's The Coward, 1915.

Having enlisted in the Confederate army despite his initial hesitation, Frank (Charles Ray) gets his first look at warfare, then loses his composure on guard duty, early in Thomas Ince's The Coward, 1915.