Carl Herlinger

This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed one; therefore she and her husband are not unlawfully married. * Ravenal returns at the end, instead of dying as in the novel

Dans un camp militaire, de nouvelles recrues s'entraînent avant de partir à la guerre en France. L'entraînement est épuisant pour Charlot. Aussitôt l'exercice fini, il s'endort. Une fois arrivé dans les tranchées, il doit s'accommoder de l'insalubrité et du mal du pays, tandis que les obus pleuvent et que les batailles font rage.

A spy known as "1932" during World War I, is commissioned by the German Secret Service to trail English agent Captain Woodhouse to the Straits of Gibraltar and there effect the destruction of the British fleet. Before his departure, 1932 helps Jane Gerson, an American girl falsely accused of espionage, and later falls in love with her.