War Brides (1916)
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- 1h 12min
- Drama, Romance
- 12 Nov 1916 (USA)
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Cast
Alla Nazimova | ... |
Joan
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Charles Hutchison | ... |
George
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Charles Bryant | ... |
Franz
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William Bailey | ... |
Eric
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Richard Barthelmess | ... |
Arno
(as Richard S. Barthelmess)
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Nila Mack | ... |
Amelia
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Gertrude Berkeley | ... |
The Mother
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Alex Shannon | ... |
The King
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Robert Whitworth | ... |
Lt. Hoffman
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Ned Burton | ... |
Capt. Bragg
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Theodora Warfield | ... |
Minna
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Charles Chailles | ... |
A Financier
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Directed by
Herbert Brenon |
Written by
Marion Craig Wentworth | ... | (play) |
Herbert Brenon | ... | (scenario) |
Produced by
Lewis J. Selznick | ... | producer |
Music by
Robert Hood Bowers |
Cinematography by
J. Roy Hunt |
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Distributors
- Selznick Distributing Corporation (1917) (United States) (theatrical)
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Storyline
Plot Summary |
Joan is loved by a young man of the village and they are married. In a few weeks the husband, a soldier, is sent to the war-front along with his three brothers. Word is received that her husband has been killed in battle and Joan's first impulse is suicide by she is pregnant and her prospective motherhood makes her realize her new responsibility. The military authorities start a movement to get the young women of the country to marry departing soldiers, so that the empire may have another generation of fighting men. Word is received that the King is to pass through their village and Joan organizes the women in a general protest against the war. She leads them all, dressed in black, in a long procession to meet the Monarch. The soldiers threaten to shoot her unless she turns the women back, buy Joan comes face-to-face with the ruler and kills herself, as her message from the women that they refuse to make another generation victims of a ruthless militarism.
Written by Les Adams |
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Budget | $1,000,000 (estimated) |
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