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The Girl Who Loves a Soldier (1916)

The Girl Who Loves a Soldier poster
Directed by
Alexander Butler
Genre
silent film
Country
United Kingdom
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A nurse disguises herself as a man in order to deliver her wounded fiancé's military dispatches during World War I. The film follows her perilous journey to get the messages through enemy lines.

poignantromanticpatrioticsuspensefuldramaticlightheartedperiod-piece

What happens

The Girl Who Loves a Soldier is a 1916 British silent war film directed by Alexander Butler and starring Vesta Tilley, Sydney Folker and James Lindsay. It was made at Isleworth Studios. During the First World War a nurse disguises herself as a man and carries her wounded fiancé's important military dispatches. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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