The Fugitive (1910 film)

{{Short description|1910 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = The Fugitive

| image = File:The Fugitive 1910.webm

| caption = {{left|PLAY film; runtime 00:16:58}}

| director = D. W. Griffith

| producer =

| writer =

| starring = Kate Bruce
Edward Dillon

| cinematography = G. W. Bitzer

| editing =

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| released = {{Film date|1910|11|07}}

| runtime = 17 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent with English intertitles

}}

The Fugitive is a 1910 American drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. Prints of the film survive at the film archive of the Library of Congress and at George Eastman House.{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/F/Fugitive1910.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: The Fugitive |access-date=June 24, 2008|work=Silent Era}} The script was by John MacDonagh, who would later fight in the Easter Rising under the command of his brother, Thomas MacDonagh, one of the seven signatories of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, who would be executed by the British along with 15 other leaders after the Rising.

John MacDonagh's script was originally on an Orange/Green theme, and set in Ireland where unionists and nationalists were at war, rather than the American Civil War theme to which it was adapted. The plot involves two soldiers, one Confederate and one Union, who leave their families to go to war. After a skirmish they end up separated from their own sides; the Union soldier shoots the Confederate. Escaping from pursuing Confederates, he looks for refuge in the house of his enemy's family.