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America had recently entered World War I when this picture was made, and it was one of innumerable patriotic films produced around this time. It begins in 1914 with American Angela Moore (Pickford) and her two foreign suitors -- a German, Karl Von Austreim (Jack Holt) and a Frenchman, Count Jules de Destin (Raymond Hatton).
Angela prefers Karl, but when war breaks out in Europe, both men go to serve their countries. Eventually Angela, too, sails for France, but her ship is sunk by a U-boat (although not named, the ship is presumed to be the Lusitania). She is saved, but when she arrives at her destination, she finds her aunt dead, and the family chateau transformed into a hospital for those wounded in battle.
The Germans arrive to fight, rape and pillage. Angela and Karl are reunited when, unaware of her identity, he tries to attack her. She forgives him this transgression, but when the Germans discover her sending messages to the French, the commander (Herbert Bosworth) orders her shot. At this, Karl denounces his country and he is ordered to be shot, too.
The pair are saved by a French shell which blows up the Germans at an opportune moment, and after an all-night battle, they are found by the Allies, sleeping at the foot of a cross. Although Karl is arrested, Angela is able to have him freed and they leave for the U.S. together.
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Cast
| Colleen Moore | | | Ramon Novarro | | | Walter Long | - German Captain | | Lillian Leighton | | | Mary Pickford | - Angela Moore | | James Neill | | | Guy Oliver | | | Sam Wood | | | Wallace Beery | | | Hobart Bosworth | - German Commander | | Ben Alexander | | | Norman Kerry | | | Jack Holt | - Karl Von Austreim | | Edythe Chapman | | | Raymond Hatton | - Count Jules De Destin | | Gordon Griffith | |
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