Johanna Enlists [Blu-ray/DVD] [2 Discs[

Director: William Desmond Taylor William Desmond Taylor

Overview

Johanna Enlists showed in mildly satirical fashion how WWI affected Americans who were living in remote rural communities. Farm girl Johanna Rensseler (Mary Pickford), bored silly by her solitary and sedentary lifestyle, asks the Lord to send her a boyfriend. The very next moment, hundreds of mounted artillerymen appear over the horizon. Though Mary doesn't exactly look heavenward and sigh "That's what I call service!," we know exactly what she's thinking. With a few days, the Rensseler farm is a "home away from home" for the soldiers-in-training, who spend their weekly paychecks on the food and beverage supplied by Johanna's folks. Inevitably, our heroine is ardently courted by several of the Boys in Khaki, though Captain Van Ranssaler (Douglas McLean) has an inside track because of the similarity between his last name and Johanna's. Featured in the cast were six hundred genuine U.S. Artillery corpsmen, to whom Mary Pickford, a tireless fundraiser for the war effort, was official "godmother."

Product Details

Release Date:	07/11/2023
UPC:	0089859909627
Original Release:	1918
Rating:	NR
Source:	Vci Entertainment
Language:	English
Time:	1:05:00
Sales rank:	16,393

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Anne Schaefer	Actor
Fred Huntley	Actor
Monte Blue	Actor
Douglas MacLean	Actor
Emory Johnson	Actor
Wallace Beery	Actor
Mary Pickford	Actor

Technical Credits