The Big Parade (1925)

Though Betty Compson is top-billed in Paths to Paradise, the film's real star is the ever-dapper, ever-unflappable Raymond Griffith. We lose our hearts to Griffith in the very first scene, where he passes himself off as a police inspector by flashing a gas meter reader's badge. The plot concerns a jewel heist engineered by Compson and Griffith right under the nose of dimwitted detective Edgar Kennedy. Though they escape scot-free, Compson has pangs of jealousy, whereupon the ever-obliging Griffith cheerfully agrees to sneak the jewels back into the safe, all the while keeping the dunderheaded Kennedy in the dark. Existing prints of the silent Paths to Paradise end with Compson and Griffith making their escape in a zany car chase; our knowledge of the film's actual outcome is predicated on an existing script and cutting continuity.

Directed by King Vidor, George W. Hill. With John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth, Claire McDowell. A young American soldier witnesses the horrors of the Great War.

The Big Parade is a 1925 American silent war drama film directed by King Vidor, starring John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth, Tom O'Brien, and Karl Dane.[2][3][4] Adapted by Harry Behn from the autobiographical novel Plumes by Laurence Stallings, with titles by Joseph W.

Rich, clean-cut American hero John Gilbert plunges into World War I and some of the most emotionally shattering battle scenes ever filmed.

Two thieves discover a professional and personal relationship when individual heist plans are thrown together by circumstance.

Americans Jim (John Gilbert), Slim (Karl Dane) and Bull (Tom O'Brien) see their first action, in France, in this extended battle sequence photographed by John Arnold, from King Vidor's The Big Parade, 1925.

The Big Parade (1925) is director/producer King Vidor's most famous, precedent-setting war film from the silent era.