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Lilac Time is a american film of genre Drama directed by Frank Lloyd released in USA on 18 october 1928 with Colleen Moore

Lilac Time (1928)

Lilac Time
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Released in USA 18 october 1928
Length 1h40
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    War,    Romance
Rating64% 3.2459153.2459153.2459153.2459153.245915

Lilac Time is a 1928 American silent romantic war film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Colleen Moore and Gary Cooper. The film is about young American aviators fighting for Britain during World War I who are billeted in a field next to a farmhouse in France. The daughter who lives on the farm meets one of the new aviators who is attracted to her. As the flyers head off on a mission, the young aviator promises to return to her.

Lilac Time was produced by John McCormick (Moore's husband), and distributed by First National Pictures. The film is based on a 1917 Broadway play written by Jane Murfin and actress Jane Cowl, who adapted the story from a novel by Guy Fowler. This film was released with a Vitaphone score and music effects, featuring the song "Jeannine, I Dream of Lilac Time," but there was no spoken dialogue. The film premiered in New York City on August 3, 1928, and was released in the United States on October 18, 1928.

Synopsis

Seven young English aviators are billeted at the Berthelot farm near the French front. One of the flyers, Philip Blythe, falls in love with farmer Berthelot's daughter, Jeannie, and on the morning before a dangerous mission declares his love for her. Philip is shot down, and Jeannie helps an ambulance crew to extricate his apparently lifeless body from the wrecked plane. In the following weeks, Jeannie searches in vain in all of the military army hospitals for Philip. She does encounter Philip's father, who, disapproving of her lowly origins, falsely informs her that Philip has died. In farewell, Jeannie sends a bouquet of lilacs to his room, and Philip, recognizing the flowers as her gift, painfully drags himself to his window in time to call her back to him.

Actors

Colleen Moore

(Jeannine)Gary Cooper

(Capt. Philip Blythe)Burr McIntosh

(Gen. Blythe)George Cooper

(Mechanic's Helper)Kathryn McGuire

(Lady Iris Rankin)
And :
Eugenie Besserer
Harold Lockwood
Émile Chautard
Edward Dillon
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