The big parade / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture ; Turner Entertainment Co. and Thames Television presentation; writer, Laurence Stallings ; director, King Vidor.
Publisher:
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
1 videodisc (151 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
John Gilbert, Renée Adoreé. Title from disc label. Originally released as a motion picture in 1925. Full screen (1.33:1). Special features: audio commentary by Jeffrey Vance with King Vidor; 1925 studio tour; trailer.
Summary:
A World War I drama about lazy James Apperson (John Gilbert), son of an industrious aristocrat (Hobart Bosworth) and his wife (Claire McDowell), and how he is coaxed into joining the Army by his father and girlfriend (Claire Adams) when the U.S. enters the War. Upon entering the Army, James is sent to France to serve his tour of duty. While in France, he and a couple of his comrades (Tom O'Brien and Karl Dane) meet and all take an amorous interest in Mélisande, a French farm girl. During a violent battle of the War, his two comrades are killed and James is seriously wounded and is hospitalized with a missing leg. During his hospitilization, he loses the whereabouts of Mélisande, his true love, and returns home to the United States as a hero to his family, but with a broken heart. After arriving home, he confesses his love of Mélisande to his mother and she encourages him to return to France to seek Mélisande, because his former girlfriend has fell in love with his brother. James returns to France and triumphantly finds his true love awaiting and missing him.
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