The Splendid Coward (1918)
- Directed by
- Floyd Martin Thornton
- Genre
- silent film, crime film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A young man must choose between his loyalty to his father and his duty to serve in World War I. The film follows his moral struggle as the war calls him away from home.
melodramaticslow-burnearnestsomberdatedformaltenseloyalty-driven
What happens
The Splendid Coward is a 1918 British silent crime film directed by F. Martin Thornton and starring James Knight, Joan Legge and Roy Travers. The story features a son's loyalty to his other against the backdrop of the Great War and a call tos service. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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