A salmon taster enlists and is put to work passing out salmon to the troops. When he is assigned to take the salmon in the lines he gets absent minded and throws hand grenades over to the hungry buddies.
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Short answer: yes, but only if you view it as a historical curiosity rather than a coherent narrative. This film is for silent comedy completists and fans of Jean Arthur's early career, but it is definitely not for those who require their war movies to have a shred of realism or logical progression. Hello Lafayette is...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

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"Short answer: yes, but only if you view it as a historical curiosity rather than a coherent narrative. This film is for silent comedy completists and fans of Jean Arthur's early career, but it is definitely not for those who require their war movies to have a shred of realism or logical progression. Hello Lafayette is a fever dream of 1920s slapstick that defies modern expectations of storytelling. It exists in a space where the logic of the stage and the chaos of the battlefield collide with z..."

