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22 February 1926 (USA) moreGenre:
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During World War I a young man joins the army and winds up befriending another young recruit, not knowing... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Funny Funny Movie About WWI moreCast
(Credited cast) | Wallace Beery | ... | Riff Swanson |
 | Raymond Hatton | ... | Shorty McKee |
| Mary Brian | ... | Betty Bartlett-Cooper |
 | Richard Arlen | ... | Percy Brown |
| Hayden Stevenson | ... | Capt. Bartlett-Cooper |
| Chester Conklin | ... | Scottie |
| Tom Kennedy | ... | Sergeant |
| Frances Raymond | ... | Mrs. Bartlett-Cooper |
| Melbourne MacDowell | ... | Mr. Bartlett-Cooper |
| Jerry Mandy | ... | Limburger soldier |
| Charles Sullivan | ... | Soldier |
| Gertrude Astor | ... | French barmaid |
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Wallace Beery joins the army and heads to France not knowing that his new best friend is the pickpocket who stole his watch. This silent movie is a great comedy about day to day life in the trenches of The Great War (before we knew to number them). The two friends spend time in the stockade, eat bad food and meet French girls. They also "volunteer" for a dangerous mission in no-man's-land, accidentally capturing an entire German company and violating the armistice. Laurel & Hardy repeated this gag in "Pack Up Your Troubles" a few years later. By 1926, Hollywood was making war dramas showing the courage and sacrifices the doughboys made. "Wings" and "Hell's Angels" would be made in the next three years. Maybe it was time to forget the horrors of the war and laugh at it for a while.