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The Unknown Soldier (1926 film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Unknown Soldier' is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Renaud Hoffman, written by Richard Schayer and James J. Tynan, and starring Charles Emmett Mack, Marguerite De La Motte, Henry B. Walthall, Claire McDowell, and George Cooper. It was released on May 30, 1926, by Producers Distributing Corporation.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/U/UnknownSoldier1926.html 'The Unknown Soldier' at silentera.com] The plot involves an American soldier heroically dying alone during World War I with a faint suggestion that he may be interred in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which had been dedicated in 1921.
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Reception
The film was shown at a Los Angeles theater with a happy ending where De La Motte's character Mary stood at an alter for a mythical marriage and at the end her soldier Fred appears. A second version was later shown where the soldier never returns, leaving the young woman standing alone in a fade out, which patrons of the theater preferred. Director Renaud Hoffman stated that the later version was what he intended, and wanted it shown that way nationwide.
Preservation
Prints of 'The Unknown Soldier' survive in the Library of Congress, UCLA Film and Television Archive, and in a foreign archive.[http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.208/default.html The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: 'The Unknown Soldier']
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