She Goes to War (1929)
1929 · Feature film · 50 min · dir. Henry King
Romance cradled amidst bursting shells and the havoc in frontline trenches.
- War
- Drama
Synopsis
She Goes to War is a 1929 American sound part-talkie drama film directed by Henry King and starring Eleanor Boardman. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the RCA Photophone sound-on-film system. The film was released a year after Boardman had starred in The Crowd. The extant version is incomplete.
Synopsis from Wikipedia
Details
- Director
- Henry King
- Writer
- Fred De Gresac
- Composer
- Modest Altschuler
- Cinematography
- John P. Fulton
- Released
- 1929-06-07
- Running time
- 50 minutes
Cast & crew
Henry King Director
Eleanor Boardman
Edmund Burns
Alma Rubens
Al St. John- Glen Walters
Margaret Seddon
Yola d'Avril
Evelyn Hall
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★ · Propagandistic 2nd release edit · picfixer · 2014-10-28
This is a drasticly edited version released in 1939 as propaganda supporting American isolationism. The surviving footage is worth watching as an interesting curiosity, but not as a coherent story. FROM IMDB: This was re-released in 1939 with a new introduction by Mitchell Leichter commenting upon America's involvement in the then imminent forthcoming World War; it was edited down to just a little more than half of its original length, eliminating most of the silent sequences that involved dialogue, and thereby the need for inter-titles, but also most of the original story structure, so that…
