War Brides
War Brides

War Brides

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1h 12m
6.0(1 votes)
Romance
Drama
War

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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.

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7 members
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Alla Nazimova

Joan

Alla Nazimova
Directing

Charles Hutchison

George

Charles Hutchison
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Charles Bryant

Franz

Charles Bryant
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William Bailey

Eric

William Bailey
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Richard Barthelmess

Arno

Richard Barthelmess
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Nila Mac

Amelia

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Gertrude Berkeley

The Mother

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