Barbed Wire
About Barbed Wire
On a French farm in the First World War, a farm girl and a German prisoner of war fall in love. Pola Negri plays the girl. Clive Brook plays the prisoner. The picture ends happily. Hall Caine's 1923 novel The Woman of Knockaloe, set at the Knockaloe camp on the Isle of Man, does not.
Cast & crew
More about Barbed Wire
Rowland V. Lee directed. Wikidata also credits Mauritz Stiller. Jules Furthman wrote the script. Bert Glennon photographed it. The story was moved from the Isle of Man to Normandy, and a happy ending was added.
Themes
Background
A 1927 Paramount silent romance set on a wartime French farm holding German prisoners.
Making
Paramount kept Negri and Brook as the couple and changed Caine's ending and setting.
Look
Bert Glennon photographed the farm and the prisoner-of-war camp.
Preservation
The film survives and is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Claude Gillingwater, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Charles Lane, and Einar Hanson are in the cast.
- The novel is The Woman of Knockaloe (1923).
- The camp in the book is Knockaloe. The film uses a farm in Normandy.
Scenes
- The farm girl and the German prisoner fall in love behind the wire.
Influenced by
- Hall Caine's novel The Woman of Knockaloe (1923)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Barbed Wire (1927).webm)
