Behind The Front, 1926

~Behind The Front~
1926

~902-46: Wallace Beery & Raymond Hatton~

~Plot Synopsis~

Riff Swanson (Wallace Beery) has his pocket picked by light-fingered Shorty McGee (Raymond Hatton)
and chases him into the Bartlett-Cooper mansion, where Betty Bartlett-Cooper (Mary Brian) is recruiting
soldiers for the war in France. Betty persuades each of them in turn that she loves only him, and they
both enlist. They are sent to France and become buddies, distinguishing themselves not at all and
spending their time either in the guardhouse or on lunatic patrols in no man's land. After the war they
return to the United States in time to see their mutual sweetheart married to Percy Brown (Richard
Arlen), the son of the hardtack king.

Plot Synopsis from afi.com

Directed by: A. Edward Sutherland

Written by:
Monte Brice - adaptation
Ethel Doherty - writer
Ralph Spence - titles

Based on the short story "The Spoils of War" by Hugh Wiley in Saturday
Evening Post (9 May 1925).

~Cast~

Wallace Beery ... Riff Swanson
Raymond Hatton ... Shorty McKee
Mary Brian ... Betty Bartlett-Cooper
Richard Arlen ... Percy Brown
Hayden Stevenson ... Capt. Bartlett-Cooper
Chester Conklin ... Scottie
Tom Kennedy ... Sergeant
Frances Raymond ... Mrs. Bartlett-Cooper
Melbourne MacDowell ... Mr. Bartlett-Cooper
Jerry Mandy ... Limburger soldier
Charles Sullivan ... Soldier
Gertrude Astor ... French barmaid

Produced by: Famous Players-Lasky Corporation

Released by: Paramount Pictures

Cinematography by: Charles P. Boyle
Presenter: Jesse L. Lasky
Presenter: Adolph Zukor

Length: 6 Reels
Runtime: 60 minutes
Released: February 22, 1926