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War Brides (1916)

ALL 01/02/1916 (en) Romance, Drama, War 72 Min
  • Release
    01/02/1916
  • Production
    Herbert Brenon Film Corporation
  • Rotten tomato
    60%
  • Original title
    War Brides
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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A STORY OF GREATER TRAGEDIES THAN THOSE OF THE TRENCHES

Overview

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.

  1. Herbert Brenon

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor



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War Brides (1916) 72 Min

ALL 01/02/1916 (en)
Romance, Drama, War
  • Release 01/02/1916
  • Production
    Herbert Brenon Film Corporation
  • Original title War Brides
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

A STORY OF GREATER TRAGEDIES THAN THOSE OF THE TRENCHES

Overview

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.

  1. Herbert Brenon

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Lewis J. Selznick

    Producer



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