The Big Parade is a 1925 silent film which tells the story of an idle rich boy who is shipped off to France to fight World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl. The film contains harrowing and realistic battle scenes, and broke with tradition by not glorifying the war. Indeed, it is often cited as an anti-war film. It greatly influenced the later All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), and all subsequent war films. It was adapted by Harry Behn and King Vidor (uncredited) from the play by Joseph Farnham and the story Plumes by Laurence Stallings, and directed by Vidor. It stars John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Claire Adams, Karl Dane, Robert Ober and Tom O'Brien. Events January-May January 3 - Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy. ... A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ... The French Republic or France (French: République française or France) is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I, about the horrors of that war and also the deep detachment from German civilian life felt by many men returning from the front. ... King Wallis Vidor (February 8, 1894–November 1, 1982) was an American film director. ... John Gilbert (July 10, 1899 - January 9, 1936) was was an actor and major star of the silent film era. ... Renée Adorée (September 30, 1898–October 5, 1933) was a French actress. ...

The Big Parade was one of the greatest hits of the 1920s, and made Gilbert and Adorée major stars. Tragically, Renée Adorée would soon be diagnosed with tuberculosis and die only a few years later. The film is the highest grossing silent film in cinema history, taking in $22 million at the box office. Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 Referred to as the Roaring 20s. ... Tuberculous lungs show up on an X-ray image Tuberculosis is an infection with the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can also affect the central nervous system (meningitis), lymphatic system, circulatory system (miliary TB), genitourinary system, bones and joints. ...

The film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Composer Carl Davis created an orchestral score for the the film in the 1980s, and it was restored and released on video in the late 1980's as part of the MGM and British television Thames Silents project. The National Film Registry is the registry of films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress. ... Carl Davis (b1936) is an American-English composer The television years Carl Davis was born in New York on October 28 1936. ...

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