Featuring a live musical scored performed by Music Box House Organist Dennis Scott

“It isn’t really a war picture at all. It’s a peace picture. It holds out the hope that, in time, we may forget all about war and war pictures and just have a good time, which will throw that kettle-drummer out of a job, but otherwise will be all for the best.” — Screenland.

A spiritual precursor to All Quiet on the Western Front, BARBED WIRE is a quiet anti-war film beautifully photographed by frequent John Ford Collaborator Bert Glennon. Pola Negri plays a French farm girl who falls in love with Clive Brook, a German POW in the Middle of WWI.

Rare archival 16mm print