The Big Parade
The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.
Keywords:
France
World war i
Patriotism
Battlefield
Falling in love
Combat
Silent film
Convoy
French girl
Spitting
Letter from home
Mud
Western front
1910s
Young soldier
Trench warfare
American g.i.
War buddies
Doughboy
Joining the army
Front-line soldier
Front line warfare
Military enlistment
Love in war
Fiance to the front
Soldiers marching
Movie tag line: "The epic of the American doughboy!"
