--- title: 'Barbed Wire (1927)' type: 'film' director: 'Mauritz Stiller' released: '1927-01-01' runtime_minutes: 67 genres: - 'Drama' - 'War' - 'Romance' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/barbed-wire-1927' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017662/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Barbed Wire (1927) 1927 · 67 min · Drama, War, Romance · United States ## Synopsis Barbed Wire is a 1927 American silent romance film set in World War I. It stars Pola Negri as a French farmgirl and Clive Brook as the German prisoner of war she falls in love with. The film was based on the 1923 novel The Woman of Knockaloe by Hall Caine. Unlike the original novel, which is set at the Knockaloe internment camp in the Isle of Man, the film takes place in Normandy, France. Some plot alterations were made in the adaptation, including most importantly the insertion of a happy ending. ## Credits - **Director:** [Mauritz Stiller](https://cinepixo.com/people/mauritz-stiller), [Rowland V. Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/rowland-v-lee) - **Producer:** [Rowland V. Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/rowland-v-lee), [Erich Pommer](https://cinepixo.com/people/erich-pommer), [Jesse Louis Lasky](https://cinepixo.com/people/jesse-louis-lasky) - **Screenplay:** [Jules Furthman](https://cinepixo.com/people/jules-furthman) - **Director of Photography:** [Bert Glennon](https://cinepixo.com/people/bert-glennon) ## Cast - [Einar Hanson](https://cinepixo.com/people/einar-hanson) - [Claude Gillingwater](https://cinepixo.com/people/claude-gillingwater) - [Pola Negri](https://cinepixo.com/people/pola-negri) - [Clyde Cook](https://cinepixo.com/people/clyde-cook) - [Clive Brook](https://cinepixo.com/people/clive-brook) - [Gustav von Seyffertitz](https://cinepixo.com/people/gustav-von-seyffertitz) - [Charles Willis Lane](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-willis-lane) - [Charles Lane](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-lane) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/barbed-wire-1927 Film facts: Wikidata (Q4859546); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.