The Mad Parade

Sep 18, 1931

1h 3m

★ 6.0

WAR'S terrors! Can women stand up and take them like men? Can they, like men, kill LOVE when WAR says "love to KILL!"

Overview

The story of eight women and how they served their country during World War I.

Genres

Drama

War

Production Companies

Liberty Pictures

Paramount Pictures

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Cast

Monica Dale

Evelyn Brent

Mrs. Schuyler

Irene Rich

Fanny Smithers

Louise Fazenda

Lil Wheeler

Lilyan Tashman

Dorothy Quinlan

Marceline Day

Prudence Graham

Fritzi Ridgeway

Janice Lee

June Clyde

Bluebell Jones

Elizabeth Keating

Rosemary Jones

Helen Keating

A gold-digging woman wins a big settlement against an older married man, which threatens to destroy the man's family. His son, discovering that the woman is part of a ring of blackmailers and that she is planning to flee the country, takes along his hulking chauffeur and follows her onto an ocean liner. There the two pretend to be a pair of wealthy playboys so that the woman will make a play for him and try to blackmail him, too, so he can then expose her and prove his father's innocence. Complications ensue.

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5.0

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5.0

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4.7

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6.0

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5.5

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6.5

Scarlet Dawn

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5.1

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A hopelessly silly young flibbertigibbet from Mississippi is faced with the choice of her poor, boorish New Jersey boyfriend or a dashing Opera star, a man of experience.

5.1

Jungle Bride

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4.7

Golden Dawn

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Dawn, a young white girl who has been kidnapped in infancy and reared by Mooda, an African woman who operates a canteen in the German cantonment, meets and falls in love with Tom Allen, an English rubber planter who is a prisoner of war. Shep Keyes, who has joined the German troops, covets her but realizes he cannot possess her because she is betrothed to the tribal god, Mulunghu. On the eve of the ceremony, he learns of her love for Tom. Tom, meanwhile, is sent back to England, and when the English take the territory from the Germans, Shep tries to incite the natives, who are experiencing a drought, against Dawn because of her love of a mortal. Tom learns from Mooda that Dawn was stolen from a white trader and finds her seeking refuge in a convent. Shep arouses the natives, but Dawn declares her faith in the white man's God, and a thunderstorm brings relief to the parched land, after which Tom claims her for his bride.

5.8

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3.6

Twin Husbands

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4.4

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5.0

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