3-023-127 - British Pathe Ltd/Heritage Images

Scene from the Short Silent Feature Film 'Poppies of Flanders'. Two Male Actors Portraying Soldiers in the Trenches Whilst Exploding Bombs Fall Around Them Mortally Injuring One Whilst the Other Is Looking On, 1920s. '...the final denouement on the battle field. There our hero dies like a, well, like a hero, heart-of-gold but common-to-the-core kisses his friend...Moral? If drink makes you a rotter, get killed in battle and then blame it all on the enemy'. British drama "Poppies of Flanders" (1927) was directed by Arthur Maude and starred Jameson Thomas, Eve Gray, Gibb McLaughlin and Henry Vibart. From "Time To Remember - Came the Dawn", 1925 (Reel 2); peek at the British Film Industry of the 1920s - clips from great silent films and newsreels.