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The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns (1919)
Directed by Charles Miller
Overview
After a prologue where we are shown the backgrounds of Wilhelm II and Woodrow Wilson, we see the story of Conrad Le Brett from Alsace-Lorraine. Forced to fight for Germany Conrad, sees soldiers taking girls into a church to rape them and kills one who murders a baby. Shot in the encounter he is taken to a Brussels hospital run by nurse Edith Cavell where he falls in love with American nurse, Amy Gordon. After Edith Cavell assassination and the murder of Conrad’s sister Vilma by the evil Lieutenant Ober Conrad honors her dying request that he go to America and defend Alsace-Lorraine’s reputation. Once there he convinces President Wilson that Alsatians should be allowed to enlist. Fighting with the “doughboys,” Conrad kills Ober, and after the armistice, returns to Amy.
Length 60 minutes
Actors
Creighton Hale | Edward Connelly | Helen Ferguson | Frank Currier | Frederick Truesdell | Henry Kolker | Joseph Kilgour | Margaret McWade | Earl Schenck | Baby Ivy Ward | Andy Clark | Leo Delaney | Karl Dane | Florence Billings | Henry Carvill | Florence Short | Mrs. Hunt | James A. Furey | Fred R. Stanton | Fanny Cogan | Emil Hoch | Charles Michael Edwards | May Allen | Carl De Mel | John McCabe | Frank Harkness | Robert Harvey | Jane McEachern | William W. Cohill | William Busby | Count De Planter | Grace Marceau | Frances Cornell | Pauline Dempsey | Henry Van Bousen | Herbert E. Jelley | Herman Gerold | William Gaffney | J.H. Forsell | J.C. Dunn | Frank Mood | William Willis | Raymond Hayes | Aubrey Lowell | Fred T. Des Bresney | Antonio Vitolli | John Laffey | Louis Stern | Richard Dorsey | Henry Pettibone | Richard Walton | T. Tamamoto