The Horrors of War - Production & Contact Info

The Horrors of War (1914)
Short | Short, Drama, War

The Horrors of War (1914)

Short | Short, Drama, War

The opening scenes show the bombardment of a Turkish town by the Russian fleet in the Black Sea. This view was taken from the deck of a Russian battleship and the details of loading the huge guns, firing them, and watching the results of ...See moreThe opening scenes show the bombardment of a Turkish town by the Russian fleet in the Black Sea. This view was taken from the deck of a Russian battleship and the details of loading the huge guns, firing them, and watching the results of their deadly accuracy are all horribly apparent. A whole town bursts into flames, and a new target is sought. A steamer is sighted in the distance making hurriedly for port, and at once it becomes the mark of broadside after broadside of volleys. The first shots tear up the water about the ship and the next instant the vessel is slapped as by a vindictive Triton, a cloud of smoke; she lists grotesquely, shivers and splinters as a few more shells find their mark and then settles sickening, head first to her final port. Another scene shows a narrow mountain pass walled on one side by unscalable cliffs and sheering off on the other into a gaping precipice piled high with the dead of a whole Turkish force which, unable to advance or retreat was cut to pieces by withering artillery fire. A touching scene is one where a mother and daughter of a dead soldier mourn beside his freshly turned grave. The deadly French 75-centimeter gun in action, a giant steel bridge wrecked to prevent the advance of the enemy's troops, the throwing of hand grenades over the short distance that separates the French from the German trenches, a barbed wire entanglement designed to tear to pieces the advancing enemy, a single war missile powerful enough to kill a regiment, a horse hurled by a shell explosion high into a tree-top, the new French aeroplane gun in action trying to bring down an enemy aviator, and the decoration of those who gave their eyes as toll to Mars, are but a few of the vivid scenes that make up this film. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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10 cast members

Name	Known for
Renée Sylvaire Cécile Pommier, l'apprentie Cécile Pommier, l'apprentie See fewer	Être ou ne pas être (1922)
Henri Bosc Jean Pommier Jean Pommier See fewer	Chicot the Jester (1913)
Maryse Dauvray Céline Pommier Céline Pommier See fewer	Trompe-la-Mort (1914)
Madeleine Grandjean La mère Pommier La mère Pommier See fewer	Trompe-la-Mort (1914)
Edmond Duquesne La pere Pommier La pere Pommier See fewer	Father John; or, The Ragpicker of Paris (1913)
Mardod Justin Pommier Justin Pommier See fewer	The Horrors of War (1914)
Johanna Sutter Cécile Pommier, enfant (as la petite Sutter) Cécile Pommier, enfant (as la petite Sutter) See fewer	The Bachelor Girl (1923)
Simone Vaudry Céline Pommier, enfant Céline Pommier, enfant See fewer	The Vow (1926)
Daynes-Grassot Actress Actress See fewer	La fièvre de l'or (1912)
Henri Gouget Actor Actor See fewer	Protéa (1913)