Behind the Front
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Edward Sutherland
Director
Wallace Beery
Riff Swanson
Raymond Hatton
Shorty McGee
Mary Brian
Betty Bartlett-Cooper
Richard Arlen
Percy Brown
Hayden Stevenson
Captain Bartlett-Cooper
Film Details
Release Date
Feb
22,
1926
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Famous Players--Lasky
Distribution Company
Paramount Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "The Spoils of War" by Hugh Wiley in Saturday Evening Post (9 May 1925).
Technical Specs
Duration
60m
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Film Length
5,555ft
(6 reels)
Synopsis
Riff Swanson has his pocket picked by light-fingered Shorty McGee and chases him into the Bartlett-Cooper mansion, where Betty Bartlett-Cooper is recruiting soldiers for the war in France. Betty persuades each of them in turn that she loves only him, and they both enlist. They are sent to France and become buddies, distinguishing themselves not at all and spending their time either in the guardhouse or on lunatic patrols in no man's land. After the war they return to the United States in time to see their mutual sweetheart married to Percy Brown, the son of the hardtack king
Director
Edward Sutherland
Director
Cast
Wallace Beery
Riff Swanson
Raymond Hatton
Shorty McGee
Mary Brian
Betty Bartlett-Cooper
Richard Arlen
Percy Brown
Hayden Stevenson
Captain Bartlett-Cooper
Chester Conklin
Scottie
Tom Kennedy
Sergeant
Frances Raymond
Mrs. Bartlett-Cooper
Melbourne Macdowell
Mr. Bartlett-Cooper
Crew
Film Details
Release Date
Feb
22,
1926
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Famous Players--Lasky
Distribution Company
Paramount Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "The Spoils of War" by Hugh Wiley in Saturday Evening Post (9 May 1925).
Technical Specs
Duration
60m
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Film Length
5,555ft
(6 reels)
