Release date January 27 or 28, 1918 | Edited by Charles A. Taylor Initial release 1918 Written by Léonce Perret | |
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Directed by Léonce PerretClifford Saum (2nd director) Produced by Rita JolivetCount Giuseppe de Cippico (Jolivet's husband)J. L. Kempner Similar The Unafraid, J'accuse, L'enfant de Paris, Tarnished Reputations, Koenigsmark | ||
Lest we forget 1934
Lest We Forget is a 1918 American silent World War I espionage drama film directed by Leonce Perret and produced by and starring Rita Jolivet. The film was released by the Metro Pictures company. While the picture is essentially a spy film, it may also be considered a propaganda film popular during World War I.
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Lest we forget 1918 to 1944
Synopsis
The film was a live action film about the 1915 Lusitania sinking (as opposed to Windsor McKay's animated film The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918)). Actress Rita Jolivet was a survivor of the sinking and much of what is known about the last moments of her producer/employer Charles Frohman is related from her. This film made famous his last words, "..Why fear death for it is the most beautiful adventure in life.
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Reception
Like many American films of the time, Lest We Forget was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required cuts of, in Reel 1, the intertitle "Why marry her?", Reel 3, that part of the scene in the telegraph office where officer throws young woman over table and is shown bending over her, Reel 4, the intertitle "Go, all of you — I will avenge this", and, Reel 7, the cutting of telephone wires.
Preservation status
The film survives in a fragment at George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection with more complete copies at the Library of Congress and Cinémathèque Française.