The Lost Battalion

And he told them to go to hell

World War I, October 1918. The more than 500 men of the 77th Infantry Division of the United States Army, who have been recruited in New York City and trained in Yaphank, are sent to France, to help break down the German defenses located in the Argonne forest…

Drama War History

Robert Alexander

(Major-General Robert Alexander)

George McMurtry

(Major George McMurtry)

Charles W. Whittlesey

(Lt. Col. Charles W. Whittlesey)

William J. Cullen

(Captain William J. Cullen)

Arthur F. McKeogh

(Lt. Arthur F. McKeogh)

Augustus Kaiser

(Lt. Augustus Kaiser)

Jack Hershkowitz

(Private Jack Hershkowitz)

Philip Cepaglia

(Corporal Philip Cepaglia)

Herman J. Bergasse

(Sergeant Herman J. Bergasse)

J. J. Munson

(Private J. J. Munson)

Abraham Krotoshinisky

(Private Abraham Krotoshinisky)

Jack McLean

(The Kicker)

Gaston Glass

(Harry Merwin)

Marion Coakley

(Nancy Bristol)

Helen Ferguson

(The Stenographer)

May Waldron Robson

(The Landlady)

Sidney D'Albrook

(The Burglar)

Blanche Davenport

(The Burglar's Mother)

Bessie Learn

(The Girl Next Door)

Tammany Young

(The Bowery Man)

Stephen Grattan

(Richard Merwin (uncredited))