Yankee Doodle in Berlin (1919)

Directed by

F. Richard Jones

Genre

silent film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 07m

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An American soldier goes behind enemy lines in disguise during World War I. The film is a silent comedy that mixes war propaganda with cross-dressing gags.

lightheartedcomedicplayfulsatiricalcampynostalgicbrisksilly

What happens

Yankee Doodle in Berlin is a 1919 American silent comedy and World War I film from producer Mack Sennett. A five-reel feature, it was Sennett's most expensive production up to that time. Hiram Abrams was the original State's Rights marketer before the film's release, but producer Sol Lesser bought the rights in March 1919. Bothwell Browne was a famous cross-dresser from Northern Europe. At the time this movie was produced he was the European rival of famous American cross-dresser Julian Eltinge, who starred in very similar plotted World War I propaganda film The Isle of Love (original title Over the Rhine). The film was later condensed for re-release and titled The Kaiser's Last Squeal. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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