THE BIG PARADE (1925) - with live piano accompaniment by Andrew E. Simpson

John Gilbert in King Vidor’s
THE BIG PARADE (1925)
On the big screen!
Thursday, June 26 at 7:30pm
Live piano accompaniment by Andrew E. Simpson
$18 Public | $12 Members

One of legendary Hollywood filmmaker King Vidor’s most celebrated works, The Big Parade provided a model for innumerable war movies that followed. John Gilbert stars as Jim, a layabout heir who enlists after being swept up in the patriotic frenzy of 1917. The film follows him and two army pals, a hard-nosed bartender and a lanky riveter, during their time in France, as a romance kindles between Jim and a young woman (French actress Renée Adorée) from the village where they’re stationed. The film was met with a spectacular reception upon its release, becoming one of the biggest hits of the 1920s. It was MGM’s highest-grossing silent film, earning about $20 million, which would be approximately $365 million in 2025 dollars. “War,” Vidor later remarked, “had not been explored yet from the realistic GI viewpoint,” and indeed many veterans praised the film for its veracity. A grunt’s epic, The Big Parade captured both the chaos of combat—its battle sequences, with their meticulously organized montage, have lost none of their horrifying power—as well as its human face. (USA, 1925, 151 min., DCP)

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