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My Four Years in Germany
(1918) American
B&W : [?] Nine or ten? reels
Directed by William Nigh

Cast: Halbert Brown [Ambassador James W. Gerard], Willard Dashiell [Sir Edward Goschen], Louis Dean [Kaiser Wilhelm II], Earl Schenck [Crown Prince of Germany], George Riddell [Field Marshall von Hindenburg], Frank Stone [Prince Henry of Prussia], Karl Dane [Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg], Fred Hern [Foreign Minister von Jagow], Percy Standing [Undersecretary Zimmerman], William Bittner [Grand Admiral von Tirpitz], Arthur C. Duvel [Field Marshall von Falkenhayn], Ann Dearing [Aimee Delaporte], A.B. Conkwright [socialist], William Nigh [socialist], Ambassador James Watson Gerard

My Four Years in Germany, Incorporated, production; distributed by First National Exhibitors’ Circuit, Incorporated. / Produced by the Warner Brothers and Mark M. Dintenfass. Scenario by Charles A. Logue, from the book My Four Years in Germany by Ambassador James Watson Gerard. Technical director, John D. Schulze. Assistant director, Clifford P. Saum. Cinematography by Rial B. Schellinger. Edited by William Nigh. Music score arranged by Meyer Brothers. / © 12 March 1918 by My Four Years in Germany, Incorporated [LP12167]. Premiered 10 March 1918 in New York, New York. General release, 29 April 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Supposedly fact-based anti-German film. The entire production was shot in New Jersey and New York.

Drama: World War I.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Keywords: Espionage: Spies - Germans - Germany: Zabern - USA: New York: Long Island: Camp Upton - War: World War I (28 July 1914-11 November 1918)

Listing updated: 18 July 2008.

References: Film credits : AFI-F1 n. F1.3098; Brownlow-Behind p. 12; Pitts-Hollywood p. 8.

 
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