Blighty (film)

Blighty is a 1927 British World War I silent drama film directed by Adrian Brunel and starring Ellaline Terriss, Lillian HallDavis and Jameson Thomas. The film was a Gainsborough Pictures production with screenplay by Eliot Stannard from a story by Ivor Montagu.

With the outbreak of World War I, Sir Francis and Lady Villiers Annesley Healey and Ellaline Terriss and daughter Ann Lillian HallDavis watch son of the household Robin Godfrey Winn and family chauffeur David Marshall Jameson Thomas go off to fight. David does well in the army and is quickly promoted through the ranks, while Robin falls in love with and marries a local girl. Robin is killed in action on the Western Front, leaving his bride a young widow with a baby.When David returns periodically to England on leave, he and Ann fall in love. Meanwhile Robins wife Nadia Sibirskaa finds her way as a refugee to England to seek out the Villiers and introduce them to their grandchild. Following the declaration of the Armistice with Germany, the romance between David and Ann has to conquer entrenched classbased attitudes, while Robins wife at first feels overwhelmed and outofplace in the Villiers household. Problems are eventually overcome, and the Villiers welcome David and their daughterinlaw and grandchild into the family. ........

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