To Hell with the Kaiser! (1918)

Directed by

George Irving

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 10m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a silent comedy from 1918 that makes fun of the German Kaiser during World War I. It was one of many propaganda films made at the time to boost American morale and demonize the enemy.

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What happens

To Hell with the Kaiser! is a lost 1918 American silent Great War propaganda comedy film produced by Screen Classics Productions and distributed by Metro Pictures. It was directed by George Irving and starred Lawrence Grant as the Kaiser. Made toward the close of World War I, this film falls in line with other films of this popular genre, the wartime propaganda film, made at the same time i.e. The Kaiser, Beast of Berlin, The Prussian Cur, The Claws of the Hun, Yankee Doodle in Berlin, Civilization, Hearts of the World, The Heart of Humanity, Over the Rhine, The False Faces, The Unpardonable Sin, My Four Years in Germany, and The Sinking of the Lusitania to name a few. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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