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Men Must Fight is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film starring Diana Wynyard, Lewis Stone and Phillips Holmes. It is based on the 1932 Broadway play of the same name by Reginald Lawrence and S. K. Lauren. When her lover is killed in World War I, a woman raises their son as a pacifist.
22. Jan. 2019 · Men Must Fight (1933) #WarnerArchive #WarnerBros #MenMustFightIn the early days of World War I, nurse Laura Mattson (Diana Wynyard) enjoys a tryst with Lt. G...
- 2 Min.
- 1003
- Warner Bros. Classics
Laura is a nurse at the Front in World War I. She meets and falls for a young flyer named Geoffrey. On his first mission, Geoffrey is shot down and taken to the hospital where Laura works. Within days he succumbes to his injuries.
- (351)
- Drama, Sci-Fi, War
- Edgar Selwyn
- 1933-02-17
Jumping ahead it is 1940 and Robert, who is Geoffrey's son, meets Peggy Chase on a Ship steaming across the Atlantic. Ed Seward, who is now the Secretary of State, has adverted War by drafting a peace treaty with a belligerent country called Eurasia.
Men Must Fight (Edgar Selwyn, 1933) 8/10. Fascinating and rare MGM production with a strong anti-war message and remarkably prophetic - made in 1933 but predicting WWII in 1940, the year most of the story is set in. During WWI a British nurse (Diana Wynyard) in France falls in love with a young flyer (Robert Young), loses him to the war ...
- Edgar Selwyn
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
In a 'Lysistrata' gambit, she persuades the mothers of America to refuse to donate their sons to the juggernaut of war. The film's title has an unspoken counterpoint: men must fight ... and women must make peace. Bob joins his mother in her pacifist campaign.
New York, end of the first World War, Laura (Diana Wynyard) with husband Ned (Lewis Stone), big diplomat and adoptive father of her son, who grows up to be Phillips Holmes, in near-future 1940, with Peggy (Ruth Selwyn) on a steamer, in Men Must Fight, 1933.
