A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines during the First World War. In the course of his training and his experiences in the trenches fighting, being wounded by, and being hospitalized with Germans, he comes to a recognition of the equality and brotherhood of men.
Herr Lieutenant Kurt von Schnieditz
Virginie Harbrok
Philip Landicutt
Margaret Landicutt
“Uncle Jemmy” Landicutt
Hoffman, the German gardener
“Lefty”
Albert Mullins
Captain Thomas Sterrett (as Captain Thomas Sterrett)
Eugene Harbrok, a Belgium scout
Madam Harbrok
Pierre Harbrok, their son
Emanuel Müller
Commanding officer of the Marine Sector
Marianne Marnholm
Lieut. Terence O’Shaughnessey
