Big Parade, The (1925) - (Movie Clip) Open, Slim, Bull, Jim

Big Parade, The (1925) -- (Movie Clip) Attack

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.

Big Parade, The (1925) -- (Movie Clip) Rookies

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) Chewing Gum

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) I'm Coming Back!

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.