A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines during the First World War. In the course of his training and his experiences in the trenches fighting, being wounded by, and being hospitalized with Germans, he comes to a recognition of the equality and brotherhood of men.

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Cast

Erich von Stroheim

Herr Lieutenant Kurt von Schnieditz

Marguerite Courtot

Virginie Harbrok

Raymond McKee

Philip Landicutt

Kate Lester

Margaret Landicutt

Darwin Karr

“Lefty”

Earl Schenck

Emanuel Müller

Gertrude Norman

Marianne Marnholm