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Starring Halbert Brown Producer Mark Dintenfass | 5.6/10 IMDb Cinematography Rial B. Schellinger Initial release 1918 Written by Charles Logue Editor William Nigh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Directed by William NighClifford P. Saum (assist. director) Produced by The Warner BrothersMark M. Dintenfass Similar Where the North Begins, To Hell with the Kaiser!, The Gold Diggers, Lights of New York, The Kaiser - the Beast of Berlin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
My Four Years in Germany is a 1918 American silent war drama film that is notable as being the first film produced by the four Warner Brothers, Harry, Sam, Albert, and Jack. It was directed by seasoned William Nigh, later a director at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and was based on the experiences of real life U. S. Ambassador to Germany James W. Gerard as described in his book. The film was produced while World War I was still raging and is sometimes considered a propaganda film.
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Reception
Like many American films of the time, My Four Years in Germany was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required cuts, in Reel 7, of the intertitle "Do you know where will be quarted tonight?", two scenes of officer entering cabin into which young woman runs and his exit, scene of young woman lying in bed with clothing disarranged after her criminal assault, scene of dead woman on ground, Reel 8, the intertitle "The first night we were quartered with the soldiers", and, Reel 10, scene of man drawing sword out of other man's body. The Chicago board's cuts totaled twenty feet of film.
Preservation
A copy of My Four Years in Germany is held in the Turner Entertainment film library.