Why America Will Win

Why America Will Win

70 mins | Drama | Sept. 8, 1918

This is not a romance but the biography of the man who now leads our vast forces in France. It shows him from boyhood to his present high command, and the story of his life tells why Pershing was selected to lead the American forces overseas and how he has his own personal account to settle with the ruthless Hun.

Why America Will Win

70 mins | Drama | Sept. 8, 1918

Why America Will Win
This is not a romance but the biography of the man who now leads our vast forces in France. It shows him from boyhood to his present high command, and the story of his life tells why Pershing was selected to lead the American forces overseas and how he has his own personal account to settle with the ruthless Hun.
Producers Fox Film Corporation
Original title Why America Will Win
Directors Richard Stanton
Writers Adrian Johnson

Cast

A. Alexander

as Gen. John J. Pershing as a boy

Harris Gordon

as Gen. John J. Pershing as a youth

Olaf Skavlan

as Gen. John J. Pershing

Ralph Faulkner

as President Woodrow Wilson

W.E. Whittle

as Col. Theodore Roosevelt

Miss Irving

as Mrs. Daniel Pershing

Frank McGlynn Sr.

as John F. Pershing

Betty Gray

as Ann Thompson Pershing

Ernest Maupain

as The Kaiser / Field Marshal von Hindenburg