The Big Parade
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The Big Parade is a 1925 American silent war drama film[2][3] directed by King Vidor, starring John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth, Tom O'Brien, and Karl Dane.[4][5][6] Written by World War I veteran Laurence Stallings, the film is about an idle rich boy who joins the U.S. Army's Rainbow Division, is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes a friend of two working-class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl. A sound version of the film was released in 1930. While the sound version of the film has no audible dialog, it featured a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process.
The Big Parade | |
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Directed by | King Vidor |
Screenplay by | Story: Laurence Stallings Scenario: Harry Behn Titles: Joseph W. Farnham |
Produced by | King Vidor (presented by) Irving Thalberg (uncredited) |
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Cinematography | John Arnold |
Edited by | Hugh Wynn |
Music by | William Axt David Mendoza |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Loew's Incorporated |
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Running time | 151 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | Silent film, English intertitles |
Budget | $382,000[1] |
Box office | $18–22 million (theatrical rental) |
The film has been praised for its realistic depiction of warfare,[7] and it heavily influenced a great many subsequent war films, especially All Quiet on the Western Front (1930).[8] The Big Parade is regarded as one of the greatest films made about World War I,[9] and, in 1992, was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.[10][11]