
A homely young girl, lonely and unhappy because she alone of all the girls in her town does not have a soldier sweetheart, pretends to be the fiancée of a famous combat aviator. When the flyer's mother learns of the "engagement," she accepts the girl as her future daughter-in-law, just in time for complications to arise in the form of the truth.
Charles Logue
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Loneliness has always been a silent co-star in American war pictures, but Charles Logue’s screenplay makes it the marquee attraction. In 1918, while Doughboys sprayed Verdun with...
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