- An American doughboy gets separated from his company, and starts back from the fighting sector to the little French town where his sweetie lives. He takes a company of German prisoners on his way back and marches into the town only to find that the Germans have taken it over.—The Film Daily, December 14, 1924
- In the American trenches there are thirteen men and the one that has to go back to his own company is Private Stock. He starts out across "no man's land" dreaming about the little French girl he left back in the town with the American troops. On the way, he falls into a pit and into a German squad. He startles the enemy and captures them and starts marching them off to town, dreaming about the medals he is going to get. When he marches the gang into town his girl, who can't speak English, tries to get over to Private Stock sign language, the fact that the Germans have occupied the town. Blissfully ignorant of peril, Private Stock marches his squad right plump into the hands of the German general staff. He is captured and escapes from the General, who used to be a waiter in New York. He routs another gang of enemy scouts with the aid of a hornet's nest and is recaptured but gets away temporarily by changing clothes with an overjoyed enemy traitor who is about to be shot. When the firing squad takes Private Stock out to shoot him he successfully misunderstands the language and marches back and forth with the squad, utterly flabbergasting the German general. He escapes again when an old cart comes between him and the firing squad and the Germans shoot holes in the wine casks and then busy themselves drinking all the beverage. In the chase which follows, Private Stock hides in the muzzle of a mortar and is blown back to town. He and his French girl then rout the enemy by faking up dummies to look like American troops passing a window. All is well with the two lovers until the lovely little cottage where they are making love is blown sky-high.—Press Sheet from Library of Congress
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