For Better, for Worse

Name: For Better, for Worse
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Released: 1919

Cecil B. DeMille

Classical Hollywood love triangle military service sacrifice and duty physical disability social judgment

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Synopsis

Dr. Edward Meade and friend Richard Burton both love Sylvia Norcross. Both enlist in the military, but Meade stays back to care for deformed children. Sylvia thinks him a coward and marries Burton. After Burton is presumed dead, Meade and Sylvia are to wed, but Burton returns maimed and scarred.

Year1919

CountryUnited States

DirectorCecil B. DeMille

MovementClassical Hollywood

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