Victory and Peace

Victory and Peace


One reel of a feature imagining a German invasion of Britain during WWI.

Soldiers in the trenches open parcels and a child dies in an air raid. This is may be the only surviving reel of a feature film directed by Irish-born actor-director Herbert Brenon.

Brenon gained a reputation in Britain for his confidence with spectacular material, including a 1913 adaptation of Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, before leaving Europe for greater success in Hollywood during the later silent era. But his career tailed off after the arrival of the talkies.

Propaganda drama. The Germans have invaded Britain, and young men are fighting and dying in the trenches, as their wives and mothers at home try to cope with the suspense and the arrival of bad news.


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