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War Brides

01/02/1916

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1hr 12min

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Romance

,Drama

,War

A STORY OF GREATER TRAGEDIES THAN THOSE OF THE TRENCHES

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Alla Nazimova
  • Charles Hutchison
  • Charles Bryant
  • William Bailey
  • Richard Barthelmess

    Director

  • Herbert Brenon

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Herbert Brenon Film Corporation

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • No Language

Cast

Alla Nazimova

Joan

Charles Bryant

Franz

William Bailey

Eric

Richard Barthelmess

Arno

Nila Mac

Amelia

Gertrude Berkeley

The Mother

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