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Mademoiselle from Armentieres (film)

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201:. British soldier Johnny (Stuart) has fallen in love with her, and she shows signs of reciprocation. The local liaison officer asks Mademoiselle whether she can find out anything about a customer named Branz, who has aroused suspicion. By working her charms on him to gain his confidence, she discovers that he is a German spy. Mademoiselle has to keep her mission secret to avoid giving away her real motives. However Johnny misinterprets the attention she pays to Brandt, assuming her to be fickle. 204:
Johnny is summoned to the fighting line before Mademoiselle can explain herself. Once she has fulfilled her mission, she goes in search of Johnny to put him in the picture. She finds his regiment in a captured German trench, with Johnny wounded. Then the trench is recaptured by the Germans with
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Branz in tow. Things look bleak until the British forces counter-attack and once again take the trench, killing Branz in the process. Mademoiselle and Johnny are trapped when the trench wall collapses, but manage to extricate themselves and look forward to their future together.
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The film opened in London in September 1926 and was still playing in cinemas around the country until well into 1927. It was reportedly the most profitable British film of 1926 and made an instant star of Brody.
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The unnamed Mademoiselle (Brody) helps her aunt to run a restaurant in
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Maurice Elvey
Victor Saville
Estelle Brody
John Stuart
Gaumont British
silent
drama film
Maurice Elvey
Estelle Brody
John Stuart
Alf Goddard
Victor Saville
Mademoiselle Parley Voo
Armentières
Estelle Brody
John Stuart
Marie Ault
Gabriel Rosca
Alf Goddard
Clifford Heatherley
British Film Institute
BFI National Archive
75 Most Wanted
"Mademoiselle from Armentieres / BFI Most Wanted"
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BFI 75 Most Wanted entry
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