Name: We Moderns
Genre: Adaptation
Released: 1925
Cast: Colleen Moore, Jack Mulhall, Carl Miller, Claude Gillingwater, Clarissa Selwyn

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Genre

Adaptation

Release Date

Nov 15, 1925

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

John McCormick Productions

Distribution Company

First National Pictures

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the novel We Moderns; a Post-War Comedy in Three Movements by Israel Zangwill (Allegro, Andante, Adagio) .

Synopsis

Mary Sundale is a member of a gay London set who call themselves "We Moderns" and scorns the Victorianism of her parents. They, in turn, have nothing but contempt for the ways of the younger generation. Mary is courted by John Ashler, a sane young civil engineer, but she fancies herself in love with a poetic humbug named Oscar Pleat ("God's Gift to Women"), a married man. In the course of a treasure hunt, Mary enters Pleat's rooms but is saved by John. However, she continues to associate with Pleat. During a jazz party aboard a zeppelin, Pleat tries to force his attentions on her; but Mary escapes after a plane crashes into the airship. Mary is glad to fall into John's arms and admits that her parents were right.