The Big Parade
- Drama
- Romance
- War
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.
- Directed by
- King Vidor
- Written by
- Harry Behn
Cast
- John Gilbert
- Renée Adorée
- Hobart Bosworth
- Claire McDowell
- Claire Adams
- Robert Ober
- Tom O'Brien
- Karl Dane
- Rosita Marstini
- Julanne Johnston
- Kathleen Key
- Carl Roup
Keywords
- silent film
- battlefield
- patriotism
- 1910s
- combat
- falling in love
- france
- world war i
- trench warfare
- young soldier
- convoy
- front-line soldier
- french girl
- mud
- joining the army
- war buddies
- american g.i.
- front line warfare
- western front
- love in war
- spitting
- letter from home
- military enlistment
- fiance to the front
- soldiers marching
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