Pilgrimage

Henrietta Crosman plays the possessive and domineering mother of Norman Foster. Despite his overbearing mother, Foster meets and falls for Marian Nixon. To keep Foster away from his girl friend, Crosman deliberately enlists her own son in the army. As if he doesn't have enough trouble with Crosman, Foster impregnates Nixon. She doesn't tell him about the pregnancy, though, and he leaves for the service without knowing of her condition. While fighting in the trenches, Foster is the third light on a match. Bullets begin to hail and, before we can see what has happened, the film cuts to Nixon as she sits up in bed shouting Foster's name. Nixon's father, Charley Grapew...