A Soldier's Plaything

Oct 30, 1930

0h 56m

★ 4.5

The boys are out of the front lines and are embracing the waistlines of mademoiselle from Armentiers and Fraulien Coblenz.

Overview

A pair of hapless half-wits get into continuous mischief during the occupation of Germany after WW I.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Romance

War

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

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Cast

Georgie

Ben Lyon

Tim

Harry Langdon

Gretchen

Lotti Loder

Capt. Plover

Noah Beery

Hank

Fred Kohler

The Corporal

Lee Moran

Lola

Marie Astaire

Joe

Frank Campeau

In Belleau Wood, France, during the Great War, a soldier named John writes a letter home to his wife Sara in Milwaukee. He writes that her picture "helps me remember what it was like to be me." He tells her about sorties into No Man's Land, and that they have orders tonight to charge. Then, his letter becomes a report of that charge: toward an armed German soldier who doesn't fire, even when John reaches him and jumps into the trench beside him. What happens next brings silence and an end to the letter.

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