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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1017

Yankee Doodle in Berlin

191965 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs: 65:06
Subtitles: English

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Wikimedia Commons · Mack Sennett Comedies · Public domain

Subtitles: Original TimedText contributors; Eddie Constanti; translation and corrections by Open Classic Cinema; source linked. · Open Classic Cinema

Synopsis

American pilot Bob White enters the Kaiser's palace on a mission to transmit military secrets. Disguised as a woman, he encourages rivalry among the German leaders while a Belgian accomplice helps him carry out the plan. Espionage becomes an excuse for broad impersonation, flirtation and military ridicule.

Cast

Bothwell Browne

DirectorsF. Richard Jones

Historical context

Produced by Mack Sennett around the end of the First World War, the film turns wartime anti-German propaganda into extravagant comedy. Stage performer Bothwell Browne supplies the central female-impersonation act.

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