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SUMMARY:WWI epic THE BIG PARADE (1925) presented by Silents\\, Please! ST
 L
DESCRIPTION:This film is presented by Silents\\, Please! STL and will fea
 ture a special introduction from SPSTL’s Kate Stewart.\\n“Every war m
 ovie since owes it an irredeemable debt… Vidor energizes The Big Parade
  by smashing together two atoms\\, a nation’s pride and a mother’s so
 rrow\\, the combination refracting the audience’s emotions into an unse
 ttling tangle. It all concludes on a decisive note of despair and regret\
 \, but audiences carry from the film a heart so full\\, so torn by elatio
 n and the abyss\\, that they won’t know if they’re coming or going.�
 � – The Village Voice\\nFor Armistice Day\\, Silents\\, Please! brings 
 you the quintessential WWI epic. The highest-grossing silent film of all 
 time\\, as well as one cinema’s first truly realistic war dramas\\, The
  Big Parade offers an unflinching look at the perils of combat. John Gilb
 ert stars as an idle rich boy who joins the US Army’s Rainbow Division 
 and is sent to France to fight in the Great War. Along the way he befrien
 ds two working class men\\, Slim (Karl Dane) and Bull (Tom O’Brien)\\, 
 finds love with a French girl (Renée Adorée)\\, and experiences the hor
 rors of trench warfare. Praised for its realistic depiction of warfare\\,
  King Vidor’s epic heavily influenced many subsequent war films\\, part
 icularly the 1930 Best Picture winner All Quiet on the Western Front. In 
 1992\\, the film was selected for preservation in the United States Natio
 nal Film Registry by the Library of Congress.\\nhttps://www.gayout.com/us
 a-canada/united-states/st-louis/events/wwi-epic-the-big-parade-1925-prese
 nted-by-silents-please-stl-2026-11-12
LOCATION:Arkadin Cinema & Bar
URL:https://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/st-louis/events/wwi-epic-the-big-parade-1925-presented-by-silents-please-stl-2026-11-12
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