Doing Their Bit

Story

Synopsis

Little Kate and Janie O'Dowd are sent to their wealthy American uncle, Michael O'Dowd, after their Irish father loses his life on a World War I battlefield. Having been locked accidentally into O'Dowd's munitions plant one evening, the children catch sight of their intoxicated cousin Miles O'Dowd admitting two men into the factory. The girls recognize the two as spies they had seen on the boat to America sending signals to a German submarine. After the spies knock Miles cold, the children trap them in a die-stamping machine until help arrives.

Director

Kenean Buel

Writers

Kenean Buel

Language

English

Release date

4 August 1918

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Jane Lee

  Janie O'Dowd

• 

  Katherine Lee

  Kate O'Dowd

• 

  Franklyn Hanna

  Michael O'Dowd

• Gertrude Le Brandt

  Bridget McCann O'Dowd

• 

  Alexander Hall

  Miles O'Dowd

• Beth Ivins

  Patricia O'Dowd

• 

  Kate Lester

  Mrs. Velma Vanderspent

• William Pollard

  Alfred Caesar Vanderspent

• Jay Strong

  Jerry Flynn

• Aimee Abbott

  Mrs. Mary Flynn

• Eddie Sturgis

  German Spy

• R.R. Neill

  German Spy