The Little American
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Cecil B. Demille
Mary Pickford
Jack Holt
Raymond Hatton
Hobart Bosworth
Walter Long
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Karl Von Austreim, a German-American living in the United States, bids farewell to his sweetheart, Angela Moore, and returns to Germany at the outbreak of World War I to fight for his native country. Count Jules de Destin of the French embassy, a rival for Angela's hand, also leaves, and shortly afterwards, Angela is called to France to care for her dying aunt. Her ship, the Veritania , is torpedoed, but she is rescued and finally arrives in France to find her aunt dead and the old chateau converted into a hospital. Having angrily forsaken her position of American neutrality, Angela agrees to conceal a telephone by which she may contact the retreating French, and after the Germans arrive, she begins sending messages to the Allies. Karl, transformed by the war, attacks Angela in the dark, but when the German colonel orders her to be shot as a spy, her former lover denounces the Kaiser and joins her before the firing squad. An attack by the French saves them, and they escape to a church, where Jules, as a reward for Angela's bravery, gives Karl his freedom and grants them both safe passage to America.
Director
Cecil B. Demille
Cast
Mary Pickford
Jack Holt
Raymond Hatton
Hobart Bosworth
Walter Long
James Neil
Ben Alexander
Guy Oliver
Edythe Chapman
Lillian Leighton
De Witt Jennings
Robert Gordon
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Cecil B. DeMille in his autobiography stated that Ramon Novarro, Wallace Beery and Sam Wood acted in this film. Other modern sources credit DeMille as film editor and list Colleen Moore, Norman Kerry and Gordon Griffith as appearing in the film. Some sources list Artcraft as the producing company. The film was shot at the Lasky studio in Hollywood.
