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Sam Davis, the Hero of Tennessee

Sam Davis, the Hero of Tennessee

1915S.I. ConnerIMDb: /10

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A dramatic biography of Confederate hero Sam Davis. He joins the army at the news of Ft.

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Lillian Nicholson Shearon

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United States

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A reel soaked in magnolia melancholy When the first nitrate frames of Sam Davis, the Hero of Tennessee flickered across my makeshift basement screen—projector humming like a dying...

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The movie Sam Davis, the Hero of Tennessee was directed by S.I. Conner.

Sam Davis, the Hero of Tennessee was released in the year 1915.

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The screenplay for Sam Davis, the Hero of Tennessee was written by Lillian Nicholson Shearon.

Yes, Sam Davis, the Hero of Tennessee (1915) is featured in the Dbcult archive as a curated cult cinema title.

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Summary

A lanky nineteen-year-old from Smyrna, Tennessee, trades the hush of campus corridors for the sulphuric haze of Fort Donelson, metamorphosing from bookish dreamer into courier of clandestine cartography; when Union ropes tighten around his neck, he swallows the names of comrades like communion wafers, choosing the gallows rather than betrayal, his silhouette dissolving into a crimson dusk that reeks of iron and lilacs.

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A dramatic biography of Confederate hero Sam Davis. He joins the army at the news of Ft. Sumter; distinguishes himself in combat; becomes a spy; and is hanged because he will not expose his fellow spies.

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DirectorS.I. Conner

Year1915

CountryUnited States

IMDb Rating/10

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