Lest We Forget (1918)
Drama | 28 January 1918
Director:
Léonce PerretWriter:
Léonce PerretEditor:
Charles A. TaylorProduction Designer:
Henri MenessierProduction Company:
Rita Jolivet Film Corp.According to a modern source, Rita Jolivet's husband, Count Giuseppe de Cippico, produced this film with J. L. Kempner. According to publicity, the film was a $250,000 production with a cast of 3,000 people. According to a news item, many of the scenes were shot in the French village of Rosessur-Meuse, which was built in Westchester County, NY.
The 16 February 1918 Moving Picture World reported that the mounted German lancers who charged into the French village were directed by real-life cowboy and Western picture veteran "Texas" Cooper, who also played the role of the cavalry's German captain. The riders were also Western cowboys.
Actress Rita Jolivet was a survivor of the Lusitania, which sank off the coast of Ireland on 17 May 1915, and according to publicity, the film immortalized the last words of American theatrical producer Charles Frohman, who sank with the Lusitania. His last words, as reported by Jolivet, who was with him as he died, were, "Why fear death? It is life's most beautiful adventure."
According to the Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database, only a fragment of this film is extant. ...
According to a modern source, Rita Jolivet's husband, Count Giuseppe de Cippico, produced this film with J. L. Kempner. According to publicity, the film was a $250,000 production with a cast of 3,000 people. According to a news item, many of the scenes were shot in the French village of Rosessur-Meuse, which was built in Westchester County, NY.
The 16 February 1918 Moving Picture World reported that the mounted German lancers who charged into the French village were directed by real-life cowboy and Western picture veteran "Texas" Cooper, who also played the role of the cavalry's German captain. The riders were also Western cowboys.
Actress Rita Jolivet was a survivor of the Lusitania, which sank off the coast of Ireland on 17 May 1915, and according to publicity, the film immortalized the last words of American theatrical producer Charles Frohman, who sank with the Lusitania. His last words, as reported by Jolivet, who was with him as he died, were, "Why fear death? It is life's most beautiful adventure."
According to the Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database, only a fragment of this film is extant.
Rita Heriot, a famous French opera singer, becomes engaged to American millionaire Harry Winslow, but with the outbreak of World War I, she volunteers her services as a village telegraph operator and is captured by the Germans. Sentenced to be shot, Rita somehow escapes and makes her way to Paris, where she hopes to find her sweetheart, who unknown to her, has joined the French army to avenge her alleged death. When Baron von Bergen, a German diplomat who desires Rita for himself, tells her that Harry has been lost in the Battle of the Marne, she goes to New York, disconsolate, to appear on the stage. Rita later informs the baron that she is planning to sail to London, but he begs her to remain in New York, knowing that her ship, the Lusitania , will never reach England. The ship is torpedoed and sunk, but Rita survives, only to be attacked by von Bergen, who wishes to mask his connection with the Lusitania affair. She strangles him with a cord, however, and then travels to Paris, where in an army hospital, she is reunited with ...
Rita Heriot, a famous French opera singer, becomes engaged to American millionaire Harry Winslow, but with the outbreak of World War I, she volunteers her services as a village telegraph operator and is captured by the Germans. Sentenced to be shot, Rita somehow escapes and makes her way to Paris, where she hopes to find her sweetheart, who unknown to her, has joined the French army to avenge her alleged death. When Baron von Bergen, a German diplomat who desires Rita for himself, tells her that Harry has been lost in the Battle of the Marne, she goes to New York, disconsolate, to appear on the stage. Rita later informs the baron that she is planning to sail to London, but he begs her to remain in New York, knowing that her ship, the Lusitania , will never reach England. The ship is torpedoed and sunk, but Rita survives, only to be attacked by von Bergen, who wishes to mask his connection with the Lusitania affair. She strangles him with a cord, however, and then travels to Paris, where in an army hospital, she is reunited with Harry.
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