Beryl Mercer

A poor but proud girl searches army hospitals for her father, reported dead in the Boer War.

The Little Princess -- An aristocratic child forced by fate from her home in India to a cheerless London boarding school.

A room full of german schoolboys are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the glorious war in 1914 and set off to become soldiers. Their disenchantment begins with brutal basic training and then, as they board the train to the front , they see the crippled being rushed to hospital. It is their first glimpse on the grim-visaged reality of war. In the trenches, one by one the boys begin to fall.

Brit Amelia Blake (Alison Skipworth) travels to America to join her son Alfred, who's led her to believe he's made it big. Fate forces her to hitchhike to California, a perilous journey that she shares with kind young Judy Martin (Mae Clarke). When Judy and another fellow traveler (James Ellison) discover the unfortunate truth about Alfred, they struggle to spare Amelia's feelings. Arthur Treacher co-stars in this unique 1930s dramedy.