The Despoiler (1915)

Movie mogul Thomas H Ince may well have been the director of The Despoiler as indicated by the credits but since Ince was known far and wide as a gloryhogger its also possible that one of his talented lieutenants wielded the megaphone A Civil War drama The Despoiler refuses to take sides demonstrating that there are heroes and villains in both camps Capturing a small town Colonel Charles K French orders his men to reclaim the funds raised for the enemy by the townsfolk Frenchs drunken lacivious secondincommand Frank Keenan intends to extort money from the citizens by threatening the virtue of the towns female population