The Little American

Plot

A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.

  • Cecil B. DeMille

    Director

  • Joseph Levering

    Director

  • Cecil B. DeMille

    Writer

  • Jeanie Macpherson

    Screenplay

  • Clarence J. Harris

    Writer

  • Alvin Wyckoff

    Director of Photography

  • Cecil B. DeMille

    Editor

  • Mary Pickford

    Angela Moore

  • Jack Holt

    Karl von Austreim

  • Raymond Hatton

    Count Jules de Destin

  • Hobart Bosworth

    German Colonel

  • Walter Long

    German Captain

  • Wallace Beery

    German Soldier (uncredited)

  • Norman Kerry

    Wounded Soldier (uncredited)

  • Colleen Moore

    Maid (uncredited)

  • Ramon Novarro

    Wounded Soldier (uncredited)

  • Sam Wood

    Wounded Soldier (uncredited)

  • James Neill

    Senator John Moore

  • Ben Alexander

    Bobby Moore

  • Guy Oliver

    Frederick von Austreim

  • Edythe Chapman

    Mrs. von Austreim

  • Lillian Leighton

    Angela's Great Aunt

  • DeWitt Jennings

    English Barrister

  • Olive Corbett

    Nurse (uncredited)

  • Lucile Dorrington

    Nurse (uncredited)

  • Clarence Geldart

    Submarine Commander U-Boat 21 (uncredited)

  • Carl Gerard

    Reverend (uncredited)

  • Robert Gordon

    Wounded Soldier (uncredited)

  • Gordon Griffith

    Child (uncredited)

  • Charles L. MacDonald

    Wounded Soldier (uncredited)

  • Bernard Niemeyer

    Wounded Soldier (uncredited)

  • Sam Robinson

    Noah (uncredited)

  • Marian Swayne

    Lindy Gray (uncredited)

  • Runtime

    63 minutes

    Released

    1917-07-12

    Countries

    United States of America

    Studios

    Mary Pickford Company

    Updated

    269 days ago

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