The Great Love

The Great Love (1918)


  • Genre: Drama, War
  • Release Date: 1918-08-11
  • Runtime: 1h 0min
  • Language: No Language
  • Production Company: Paramount
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: D.W. Griffith

Summary

Jim Young of Youngstown, Pennsylvania, reads of the German war atrocities and decides to enlist in the British army, thus becoming a forerunner of the American forces that are subsequently to leave for the battlefields of Europe. He begins active training at a camp outside London. While enjoying a few hours of leave, he meets Susie Broadplains , a young woman from Australia. She is flattered by his attentions and their friendship soon blossoms into love. However German plotters plan to destroy an arsenal at night and Sir Roger is inveigled into driving an automobile along a London road with its lights turned skyward to guide the Zeppelins. Jim, wounded and home on furlough, detects Sir Roger on the lonely road, follows and traps him in his cottage. Sir Roger turns his pistol on himself rather than be taken alive. Susie finds the "great love" in service for the cause of democracy and her country, with a greater love in sight.

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  • Lillian Gish

    as Susie Broadplains
  • Robert Harron

    as Jim Young
  • George Siegmann

    as Mr. Seymour
  • Gloria Hope

    as Jessie Lovewell
  • Maxfield Stanley

    as John Broadplains
  • Rosemary Theby

    as Miss Corintee
  • Henry B. Walthall

    as Sir Roger Brighton
  • Violet Keppel Trefusis

    as Violet Keppel
  • Diana Manners

    as Diana Manners
  • Elizabeth Asquith

    as Elizabeth Asquith
  • Bettina Stuart Wortley

    as Bettina Stuart Wortley
  • Queen Alexandra

    as Queen Alexandra
Production D.W. Griffith Producer
Writing Stanner E.V. Taylor Writer
Directing D.W. Griffith Director
Writing D.W. Griffith Writer
Camera George Schneiderman Director of Photography
Camera Billy Bitzer Director of Photography

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