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War Brides (1916)
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.
Updated May 31 2020
Cast
William Bailey
Eric
Alla Nazimova
Joan
Charles Bryant
Franz
Charles Hutchison
George
Nila Mac
Amelia
Gertrude Berkeley
The Mother
Crew
J. Roy Hunt
Director of Photography
Herbert Brenon
Director
Herbert Brenon
Scenario Writer
Herbert Brenon
Screenplay
Lewis J. Selznick
Producer
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