
A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines during the First World War. In the course of his training and his experiences in the trenches fighting, being wounded by, and being hospitalized with Germans, he comes to a recognition of the equality and brotherhood of men.

as Herr Lieutenant Kurt von Schnieditz

as Virginie Harbrok

as Philip Landicutt

as Margaret Landicutt

as “Uncle Jemmy” Landicutt

as Hoffman, the German gardener

as “Lefty”

as Albert Mullins

as Captain Thomas Sterrett (as Captain Thomas Sterrett)

as Eugene Harbrok, a Belgium scout

as Madam Harbrok

as Pierre Harbrok, their son

as Emanuel Müller

as Commanding officer of the Marine Sector

as Marianne Marnholm

as Lieut. Terence O’Shaughnessey