A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines during the First World War. In the course of his training and his experiences in the trenches fighting, being wounded by, and being hospitalized with Germans, he comes to a recognition of the equality and brotherhood of men.
Erich von Stroheim
as Herr Lieutenant Kurt von Schnieditz
Marguerite Courtot
as Virginie Harbrok
Raymond McKee
as Philip Landicutt
Kate Lester
as Margaret Landicutt
Frank de Vernon
as “Uncle Jemmy” Landicutt
Lew Hart
as Hoffman, the German gardener
Darwin Karr
as “Lefty”
Sgt. Moss Gill, U.S.M.C.
as Albert Mullins
Thomas Sterrett
as Captain Thomas Sterrett (as Captain Thomas Sterrett)
Mortimer Martini
as Eugene Harbrok, a Belgium scout
Blanche Davenport
as Madam Harbrok
Harold Hallacher
as Pierre Harbrok, their son
