THE STRONG MAN was director Frank Capra's first full-length film and Harry Langdon's second. Easily Langdon's best silent feature, it pits the comedian's clueless character against the advances of the German army, an avaricious seductress, a town full of evil interlopers, and a very,
very bad cold.
On the battlefields of WWI, Paul Bergot (Harry Langdon), a Belgian soldier, spends his more peaceful moments reading and rereading love letters from Mary Brown (Priscilla Bonner), an American pen pal he has never met. Ultimately, he becomes the personal prisoner of a German soldier known as
"Zandow the Great." When the war is over, Zandow, a professional circus stron...
Released:
1926
Rated:
NR
Length:
75 mins