Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom believes that Molly is waiting for him, while in fact, she loves Jack and only turned to Tom on the rebound. Jack and Molly meet while he is on leave, and when he returns to battle, he doesn't know how to handle the situation with Tom.
Acting
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s tortured restraint vs. his brother's earnest blindness.
Direction
Dwan's economical 72-minute devastation—no scene wasted.
Director
Allan Dwan
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Jack Ingleside
Rose Hobart
Molly Prescott
Anthony Bushell
Tom Ingleside
Holmes Herbert
Maj. Bradford
Mary Forbes
Mrs. Ingleside
Edmund Breon
The General
Harry Allen
Pvt. Jones
May Beatty
Mayfair 1119 (uncredited)
Billy Bevan
Cuthbert (uncredited)
Florence Britton
Sylvia (uncredited)
Herbert Evans
British Soldier at the Front (uncredited)
Ethel Griffies
Drunken Flower Vendor in Pub (uncredited)
Ruth Hall
Girl at Party (uncredited)
Forrester Harvey
Joe (uncredited)
Mae Madison
Ruth (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pre-Code Hollywood allowed surprisingly frank treatment of sexual desire and moral compromise before 1934 censorship clamped down.
Fairbanks Jr. deliberately channeled his famous father's swashbuckling image into passive suffering—a career-defining subversion.
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