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A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines during the First World War. In the course of his training and his experiences in the trenches fighting, being wounded by, and being hospitalized with Germans, he comes to a recognition of the equality and brotherhood of men.
16 Cast Members
Erich von Stroheim
Herr Lieutenant Kurt von Schnieditz
Marguerite Courtot
Virginie Harbrok
Raymond McKee
Philip Landicutt
Kate Lester
Margaret Landicutt
Frank de Vernon
“Uncle Jemmy” Landicutt
Lew Hart
Hoffman, the German gardener
Darwin Karr
“Lefty”
Sgt. Moss Gill, U.S.M.C.
Albert Mullins
Thomas Sterrett
Captain Thomas Sterrett (as Captain Thomas Sterrett)
Mortimer Martini
Eugene Harbrok, a Belgium scout
Blanche Davenport
Madam Harbrok
Harold Hallacher
Pierre Harbrok, their son
Earl Schenck
Emanuel Müller
Major Thos. Holcomb, U.S.M.C.
Commanding officer of the Marine Sector
Gertrude Norman
Marianne Marnholm
Lieutenant J. F. Rorke, U.S.M.C.
Lieut. Terence O’Shaughnessey
