Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to stand by each other in a belief that a great business firmly established in four countries will be able to withstand even such another calamity as the Napoleonic Wars from which Europe is slowly recovering. Then many years later, along comes World War One and the years that follow, to test the businesses.
Genres:
Madeleine Carroll as Mrs. Warburton, 1825 / Mary Warburton Girard, 1914
Franchot Tone as Richard Girard - 1825 / Richard Girard - 1914
Reginald Denny as Erik von Gerhardt
Sig Ruman as Baron von Gerhardt (as Siegfried Rumann)
Louise Dresser as Baroness von Gerhardt
Raul Roulien as Carlos Girard (1825) / Henri Girard (1914)
Stepin Fetchit as Dixie
Lumsden Hare as Gabriel Warburton (1825) / Sir John Warburton (1914)
Dudley Digges as Mr. Manning
Frank Melton as John Girard (1825)
Brenda Fowler as Madame Agnes Girard (1825)
Russell Simpson as Notary (1825)
Walter McGrail as The Duallist (1825)
Marcelle Corday as Madame Girard II (1914)
Charles Bastin as Jacques Girard, the Boy (1914)
Barry Norton as Jacques Girard (1924)
George Irving as Charles Girard (1914)
Ferdinand Schumann-Heink as Fritz von Gerhardt
Georgette Rhodes as Jeanne Girard
Claude King as Colonel Braithwaite
Ivan F. Simpson as Clumber
Frank Moran as Frank Moran
Francis Ford as Legionaire in Trench
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