The silent film rights to the original story had been purchased by Metro in 1918 for $190,000.
Harriet MacGibbon as Doña Luisa Desnoyers.The final words are from one set of parents to another: "Our children have killed each other." In other prints, the film ends with the four horsemen riding on to create future havoc for other generations. In it, the grandchildren's parents listen helplessly on the telephone as the deaths happen. The final scene, the most important one in the film, is missing from several versions shown. Heinrich, realizing that Julio is probably a French agent, captures him just as the bombs are falling on them and kill both.
When Julio discovers that Laurier is an important figure in the resistance, he joins it as well.Įventually, both Chi Chi and Laurier are tortured and murdered by the Gestapo, and Laurier reveals to von Kleig that Julio is working for the resistance and on an important mission: guiding Allied bombers to destroy a Nazi headquarters in Normandy. Laurier is released from prison an apparently-broken man, and Marguerite leaves Julio to care for him. Julio's younger sister Chi Chi becomes active in the French resistance and makes Julio uncomfortable about his own neutrality. When Marguerite becomes the object of German General von Kleig's lust, Julio defies him and incurs his personal enmity. He takes advantage of his status as a neutral to live a pleasant life with Marguerite in German-occupied Paris, where his cousin Heinrich is an important official in the SS. Julio falls in love with Laurier's wife, Marguerite, and becomes her lover after war breaks out and Laurier is sent to a prisoner-of-war camp. In 1938, Julio goes to Paris with his family and befriends Marcelo's anti-Nazi friend Etienne Laurier. He runs outside into a storm with visions of the four horsemen and then dies in Julio's arms. When Heinrich returns home from studying in Germany to reveal he has become a Nazi, Madariaga slaps him and predicts that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Conquest, War, Pestilence, and Death) will soon devastate the earth. His two grandsons are Julio, whose father Marcelo is French, and Heinrich, whose father Karl is German. In 1936, Madariaga is the 80-year-old patriarch of a cattle ranch in Argentina.
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