The Big Parade (1925)

Review: The Big Parade (1925)

Director: King Vidor

Cast: John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth, Claire McDowell, Claire Adams,

John Gilbert
John Gilbert
Renée Adorée
Renée Adorée
Hobart Bosworth
Hobart Bosworth
Claire McDowell
Claire McDowell
Claire Adams
Claire Adams

Plot: The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.

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Notes on Recent Viewing, part one

Notes on Recent Viewing, part one

A survey of recent viewing covers approaches to realism, metaphor, horror and war in a range of films from the 1920s to the […]

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