The Big Parade

The Big Parade

1925 | 2h 22m | Drama | TV-G

Brief Synopsis

In this silent film, a young innocent enlists for World War I service but soon learns the horrors of war.

Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

King Vidor

CAST

John Gilbert

Renée Adorée

Hobart Bosworth

Karl Dane

PRODUCERS

King Vidor

WRITERS

Harry Behn

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Big Parade, The (1925) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Slim, Bull, Jim
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Opening title sequence for King Vidor's The Big Parade, 1925, introduces soon-to-be doughboys Slim (Karl Dane), Bull (Tom O'Brien) and Jim (John Gilbert).
Big Parade, The (1925) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Coming Back!
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One wonders how King Vidor directed this mayhem, much less how doughboy Jim (John Gilbert) and French villager Melisande (Renee Adoree) found each other, as the American troops pull out in MGM's The Big Parade, 1925.
Big Parade, The (1925) -- (Movie Clip) Chewing Gum
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In a scene famously improvised at the whim of director King Vidor, doughboy Jim (John Gilbert) teaches French Melisande (Renee Adoree) how to chew gum, in The Big Parade, 1925.
Big Parade, The (1925) -- (Movie Clip) Rookies
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First assembled in a field then in drills, director King Vidor offers the first of many head-on shots of his doughboy heroes Jim (John Gilbert), Slim (Karl Dane) and Bull (Tom O'Brien) in The Big Parade, 1925.
Big Parade, The (1925) -- (Movie Clip) Attack
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Americans Jim (John Gilbert), Slim (Karl Dane) and Bull (Tom O'Brien) see their first action, in France, in this extended battle sequence photographed by John Arnold, from King Vidor's The Big Parade, 1925.

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