Word: poilu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pictures and comment in the Parisian journals made the homeless waifs the idols of the warm-hearted French. Some enterprising merchant fashioned a Siamese-twin-like yarn doll representing a boy and a girl which was immediately seized upon by the Poilu as a good luck fetish to be worn around the neck. Soon everyone wore them in every Allied army...
Brutal, brilliant battle scenes dominate the action. Preëminent in the cast is Louis Wolheim as Kat. Best shot: Raymond Griffith (silk hat comedian) as the bloody, bearded French poilu stabbed to death in a shell hole...