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Director:
Writers:
Jane Cowl (play)
Guy Fowler (book)
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Release Date:
18 October 1928 (USA) more
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Tagline:
SEE LIFE at its most magnificent moments---in the most magnificent spectacle the screen has ever given you! more
Plot:
All of those handsome young men in their flying machines are billeted in a field next to the Widow Berthelot's farmhouse in France... more | add synopsis
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Pedestrian WWI romance with fine Moore performance more (5 total)

Cast

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Colleen Moore ... Jeannine Berthelot

Gary Cooper ... Capt. Philip Blythe
Burr McIntosh ... Gen. Blythe
George Cooper ... Mechanic's Helper
Cleve Moore ... Capt. Russell (flight commander)
Kathryn McGuire ... Lady Iris Rankin
Eugenie Besserer ... Madame Berthelot
Emile Chautard ... The Mayor
Jack Stoney ... The Kid
Edward Dillon ... Mike the Mechanic
Dick Grace ... Aviator
Stuart Knox ... Aviator
Harlan Hilton ... Aviator
Richard Jarvis ... Aviator
Jack Ponder ... Aviator
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Love Never Dies
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Runtime:
80 min
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Sound Mix:
Mono (musical score and sound effects)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The original Broadway production of "Lilac Time" by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin opened at the Theater Republic on February 6, 1917 and ran for 176 performances. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in "Hollywood" (1980) more
Soundtrack:
Jeannine, I Dream of Lilac Time more

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Pedestrian WWI romance with fine Moore performance, 8 February 2002
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This is a pretty simplistic romance. Girl finds boy, girl loves boy, girl loses boy, girl finds boy. Colleen Moore is the outstanding ingredient in this recipe, delivering a wonderfully varied dramatic/romantic performance, well deserving of an Oscar nom. Equally fine are the aerial combat special effects.

Moore plays a French girl whose mother has turned over their field to a British aerial squadron during WWI. She is the "daughter of the regiment", loved as a little sister. Into this mix comes a fill-in for a downed flyer, Gary Cooper. At first they hate each other, then they love each other, then the entire squadron is sent out on a suicide mission. Cooper returns but crashes in the village and a red cross unit removes him. Moore searches for him, is told at a hospital he is dead, then wanders the streets until he calls from a hospital window and they are reunited.

It's a nice little romance, but hardly more than that. Recommended for fans of Ms. Moore and Mr. Cooper

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