

“THE LOVE STORY OF A CENTURY THEIR love IS YOUR LOVE THEIR fear IS YOUR FEAR THEIR hope IS YOUR HOPE”
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.

Stepin Fetchit
Dixie

Lumsden Hare
Gabriel Warburton (1825) / Sir John Warburton (1914)

Dudley Digges
Mr. Manning

Frank Melton
John Girard (1825)

Brenda Fowler
Madame Agnes Girard (1825)

Russell Simpson
Notary (1825)

Walter McGrail
The Duallist (1825)

Marcelle Corday
Madame Girard II (1914)

Charles Bastin
Jacques Girard, the Boy (1914)

Barry Norton
Jacques Girard (1924)

George Irving
Charles Girard (1914)

Ferdinand Schumann-Heink
Fritz von Gerhardt

Georgette Rhodes
Jeanne Girard

Claude King
Colonel Braithwaite

Ivan F. Simpson
Clumber

Frank Moran
Frank Moran

Francis Ford
Legionaire in Trench