''Carry On, Sergeant!'' is a 1928 Canadian World War I drama, and is considered to be one of the earliest Canadian feature-length motion pictures. Costing to make, it certainly was the most expensive.

Plot

''Carry On, Sergeant!'' is the story of four friends who join the army to fight in the

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. After years of

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, one of the men ( Hugh Buckler) meets a French woman (Louise Cardi) working the taverns. He sleeps with her, but is overcome with guilt and is later killed in battle. His wife (Nancy Ann Hargreaves) back home believes he died a hero and remembers him with love. This sentimental film, which doesn't back away from the unpleasant – it was harshly criticized for the affair between a Canadian soldier and a 'prostitute' – was released at the end of the silent era and after only a brief theatrical run it disappeared from view. It was revived in the 1970s when the

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struck a new print.''Censored! Only in Canada'' by Malcolm Dean, Virgo Press, 1981.

Cast

Release

The film premiered on 10 November 1928, in the Regent Theatre in

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under its French name Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. 1928 films 1920s war drama films Canadian black-and-white films Canadian Armed Forces in films Canadian war drama films Canadian World War I films Canadian silent feature films 1928 drama films 1920s Canadian films Silent war drama films 1920s English-language films English-language war drama films {{WWI-drama-film-stub