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To Hell with the Kaiser! is a american film directed by George Irving released in USA on 30 june 1918 with Lawrence Grant
To Hell with the Kaiser! (1918)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 30 june 1918
Length 1h10
Directed by George Irving
OriginUSA
Themes Political films
Rating25%
To Hell with the Kaiser! is a lost 1918 silent Great War propaganda comedy film produced by Screen Classics Productions and distributed by Metro Pictures. It was directed by George Irving and starred Lawrence Grant as the Kaiser.
Made toward the close of World War I, this film falls in line with other films of this popular genre, the wartime propaganda film, made at the same time i.e. The Kaiser, Beast of Berlin, Yankee Doodle in Berlin, Hearts of the World, The Heart of Humanity, Over the Rhine, The False Faces and The Unpardonable Sin to name a few.
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Lawrence Grant who spent his lengthy career playing odious villains, appeared in the dual role of Kaiser Wilhelm II and his look-alike, German actor Robert Graubel. Terrified of being assassinated, the Kaiser hires Graubel to impersonate him at various political functions. In the film, the Kaiser achieves military success through an infernal pact with Satan. Once this is established, the film concentrates on the seemingly endless tally of misdeeds perpetrated by the Kaiser during his quarter-century reign over Germany. His "partner in crime" is the Crown Prince (Earl Schenck), who thinks nothing of casually raping convent girls and gunning down protesting nuns. The Crown Prince's latest conquest is Ruth Monroe (Betty Howe), the daughter of an American inventor. When Ruth's father protests this outrage, he is brutally murdered, whereupon Ruth's sister Alice (Olive Tell) vows revenge. Using her father's newest invention, a wireless machine whose coded messages cannot be intercepted, Alice directs a battalion of planes to bomb the small German village where the Kaiser is hiding. Captured by the Allies, the Kaiser is ignominiously dumped in a POW camp, but not before enduring a well-aimed sock on the jaw from a pugnacious doughboy. In despair, the Kaiser commits suicide and sends his soul to hell. In hell, the devil (Walter P. Lewis) gives up his throne, confessing that the Kaiser is far more sinister than he could ever hope to be.Actors
Lawrence Grant
(The Kaiser/Robert Graubel)
Olive Tell
(Alice Monroe)
Frank Currier
(Professor Monroe)
Karl Dane
(Von Hollweg)
May McAvoy
(Wounded Girl)
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