The Little American - 1917 - 6/10

Stateside, circa 1913, Abigail toys with two suitors. A dashing Frenchman and a handsome German.
Before she has to choose, both return to their native lands as the Great War begins.
No sooner is the Von Schlieffen Plan implemented, than Abigail inherits a chateau in rural France!
She sets sail on the Lusitania - oops! - yet miraculously survives and reaches her chateau …
Just as a German division seizes it for a command headquarters.
Women are raped, villagers shot, looting is widespread.
Propaganda film, well directed by Cecil B DeMille, moves briskly and piles on the excesses.
I don’t know whether intentional or not, but the German top officers reminded me of Von Hindenburg and Ludendorff.
For folks who think Mary Pickford only played little girls, check this one.
(Every copy I have ever watched suffers poor video resolution.)