The read
It runs a compact 1h 24m.
Synopsis
Set against the backdrop of the shell crisis of 1915 at home and the Battle of Loos on the Western Front, two soldiers, one the manager of Grimlaw’s munitions factory are tested in their rivalry for Diana, a red cross nurse (Madeleine Carroll in her first film role).
Ratings
IMDb7/10
2 audience votes
Key crew
- Joe GrossmanWriter
- Leslie Howard GordonWriter
- Sinclair HillDirector
- Reginald FogwellWriter
- Sinclair HillWriter
Cast
- Henry VictorJohn Grimlaw
- Madeleine CarrollDiana Cheswick
- Bobby HowesDanny
- Hermione BaddeleyMavis
- Donald MacardleClive
- Adeline Hayden CoffinLady Cheswick
- Jeanne le VayeArlette
- Philip HewlandStevens
- Frank GoldsmithCol. Jameson
- Tom CoventryTubby
- Tom CoventryOfficer
- Wally PatchSergeant