The Little American (1917)
The silent sufferers
A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.
- Date of release
- 1917-07-12
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (21)
- Runtime
- 1h 3m
- Genres
- Drama, War, Romance
- Director
- Cecil B. DeMille, Joseph Levering
Casting
- Mary Pickford — Angela Moore
- Jack Holt — Karl von Austreim
- Raymond Hatton — Count Jules de Destin
- Hobart Bosworth — German Colonel
- Walter Long — German Captain
- Wallace Beery — German Soldier (uncredited)
- Norman Kerry — Wounded Soldier (uncredited)
- Colleen Moore — Maid (uncredited)
- Ramon Novarro — Wounded Soldier (uncredited)
- Sam Wood — Wounded Soldier (uncredited)
- James Neill — Senator John Moore
- Ben Alexander — Bobby Moore
Interesting facts
- Budget: $166.9K
The Little American is a 1917 American silent romantic war drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The film stars Mary Pickford as an American woman who is in love with both a German soldier and a French soldier during World War I. Art direction for the film was done by Wilfred Buckland. John Hay Beith was technical advisor on the film, credited under his pen name, Ian Hay.
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