Into No Man's Land (1928)

Genres - Drama  |   Sub-Genres - War Drama  |   Run Time - 77 min.  |   Countries - United States  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Sandra Brennan

A young woman grows up innocent of the fact that her gentlemanly father is the head of a notorious ring of thieves. This romantic drama follows what happens when a young attorney decides to investigate the crook. The lawyer's quest for truth gets temporarily derailed after he falls in love with criminal's lovely daughter. It is further disturbed when the crook flees the country to escape a murderous/treacherous gang member. he ends up joining the American Expeditionary Force as does the lawyer. The two finally confront each other when they accidentally meet in the trenches. The villain knows the lawyer is among those seeking his destruction, but doesn't realize that the attorney is involved with his daughter until he hears the youth whisper her name in the midst of a delirium. Following the war's end, the lawyer marries his true love. Meanwhile, both believe the crook died in the trenches until many years later when a tattered stranger shows up at their door. The girl does not know him, but her canny husband realizes that the battle scarred wreck standing before them is her father and that he has comeback to see his girl one more time before dying.

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war, America, battle [war], claim, criminal, daughter, death, detective, escape, father, gangster, greed, house, husband, investigation, investigator, jewel-robbery, lawyer, love, pursuit, rage, robbery, scar, suspect, trenches, vagabond, wish, man