The Little American

Name: The Little American
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Genre: หนังชีวิต, สงคราม, หนังรักโรแมนติก
Released: 1917-07-12
Duration: 1 h 3 min
Rating: 6.262
Cast: แมรี พิกฟอร์ด, Jack Holt, Raymond Hatton, Hobart Bosworth, Walter Long

"The silent sufferers"

A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.

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แมรี พิกฟอร์ด

Angela Moore
Jack Holt

Karl von Austreim
Raymond Hatton

Count Jules de Destin
Hobart Bosworth

German Colonel
Walter Long

German Captain
Wallace Beery

German Soldier (uncredited)
Norman Kerry

Wounded Soldier (uncredited)
Colleen Moore

Maid (uncredited)
Ramon Novarro

Wounded Soldier (uncredited)

เรื่องย่อ

A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.

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6.3 / 10

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CinemaSerf
7 20 ก.พ. 2568

With the Great War ravaging Europe as this film was made, it’s a clear signal of patriotism from star Mary Pickford as she depicts the feisty “Angela”. She’s from wealthy stock and on her birthday is being courted by French “Count Jules” (Raymond Hatton) and by her slight favourite, the Prussian soldier “Karl” (Jack Holt). Before she has to make any choices, though, both head to their respective homes to fight. Shortly thereafter, she decides to travel to her aunt’s home in France only for her liner to be torpedoed and for her to find that when she eventually arrives at her stately pile that the Bosch are intent on billeting there and behaving abominably too. Her American status gives her a degree of protection so long as she stays out of the conflict, and her stiff-necked friend “Karl” is amongst the occupiers, but when their cruelty to the house’s staff and to an elderly gent shock her to the core, she decides that she can no longer stay on the fence. What now ensues sees her bravely attempt to help the Allied forces at great peril not just to her, but to her friend who would try to keep her as alive as his upbringing would permit! That merely invites a trial for espionage and treason and a firing squad for both of them looms… Can they find a way to escape the bullets? This is an effective propaganda tool, this film, illustrating just how ghastly the enemy were; how indiscriminate their violence was inflicted and how generally boorish and superior they were. Pickford and Cecil B. DeMille clearly wanted to ram that point home to domestic audiences and on that front they are quite effective. It really could have done with some more light, but even dingy as it is it delivers quite a potent analysis of uniformed thuggery tempered by conflicted romance and a semblance of human decency. It has it’s zealous moments - from all sides, and in it’s way it is quite a tough film to watch as though not graphic in terms of photography, it is in terms of psychology. It has a clear message to send and is worth a watch, I’d say.