Behind the Front

Behind the Front

64 mins | Comedy, War | Feb. 22, 1926

During World War I a young man joins the army and winds up befriending another young recruit, not knowing that it's the same pickpocket who stole his watch. After finishing basic training, the two are sent to the front lines in France, where they wind up in trouble with the MPs, getting involved with some cute French girls and "volunteering" for a dangerous front-line mission, and their antics result in their endangering the armistice.

Behind the Front

64 mins | Comedy, War | Feb. 22, 1926

Behind the Front
During World War I a young man joins the army and winds up befriending another young recruit, not knowing that it's the same pickpocket who stole his watch. After finishing basic training, the two are sent to the front lines in France, where they wind up in trouble with the MPs, getting involved with some cute French girls and "volunteering" for a dangerous front-line mission, and their antics result in their endangering the armistice.
Producers
Original title Behind the Front
Directors A. Edward Sutherland
Writers Ethel Doherty, Hugh Wiley, Ralph Spence, Monte Brice

Cast

Wallace Beery

as Riff Swanson

Raymond Hatton

as Shorty McKee

Mary Brian

as Betty Bartlett-Cooper

Richard Arlen

as Percy Brown

Hayden Stevenson

as Capt. Bartlett-Cooper

Chester Conklin

as Scottie

Tom Kennedy

as Sergeant

Frances Raymond

as Mrs. Bartlett-Cooper

Melbourne MacDowell

as Mr. Bartlett-Cooper

Jerry Mandy

as Limburger soldier

Charles Sullivan

as Soldier

Gertrude Astor

as French barmaid