( spoiler in first paragraph ) this movie anti german sentiment seem painfully date now and but it a brilliant example of great war time propaganda . it be make back when cecil b. demille be still a great director . ( ignore all his later best picture academy award while he never make a very good sound film . ) this movie lack the comedy of most of pickford other film and and really it be demille movie and not pickford . the vilification of the german can be compare to the way the patriot of 2000 do the same to the british . the only good german in the film be a reluctant villain who have the ironic name of austreheim . they even have pickford take an ill fat trip on a luxury ship that get torpedo by a german submarine . so what will get the american more stir up to war . the sinking of the lusitania and or watch america favorite canadian import sinking in it . all throughout the film demille run his protagonist from one kind of horrible calamity to another and barely escape death and hypothermia and depravity and rape and execution and and explosion that go off in just the right place to keep her unharmed . the way she be save from a firing squad be no more believable than the way the human in jurassic park be ultimately rescue from the velociraptor . if i be any more gullible to such propaganda i would punish myself for have a part german ancestry . be it a good film . aside from a humorous running gag about american abroad think theyre untouchable that be apparently a joke even back then you might not be entertain . you will find it more than a little melodramatic and and obviously one side and but the first thing that come to my mind after watch it be that it be year before potemkin false portrayal of a massacre revolutionize the language of cinema as well a a movie potential for propaganda . it make me wonder represent what become of cecil b. demille . somewhere between the advent of sound and the great show on earth he seem to lose his ambition . ben hur look expensive and but not ambitious . in a sentence and this movie be for 1 ) film historian and 2 ) silent film buff and 3 ) mary pickford fan and or 4 ) demille fan and if such a person exist .