在这部The Price of Victory短片/剧情片中,
In the south of France lived old Daudet, the keeper of an inn, and his son, a young man of eighteen years, the other a royalist, the son an enthusiastic patriot. One day Jean Daudet is called to battle. Eight weeks later the lad returns to the village dressed in all the wonderful trappings of a drummer boy, all of life and patriotism; and thus the old man bids him farewell. The news of the battle reaches the village, the old gray-haired father goes forth to search for his son. Back to the inn the heartbroken father brings his dear dead and simply and humbly lays the silent white figure upon the table, and placing two candles at his head, sits alone in the silent watches of the night beside his dead one. The Emperor and his staff stop at the inn for a few moments to write the dispatch heralding the news of the victory. Small wonder when the man of destiny calls for candles, so that he may see to write, that the old father refuses to give them up. By this means the Emperor and the dead ...
