WHAT PRICE GLORY (1926)

Special Features: 100th Anniversary | New 4K Restoration | Intro by film historian Farran Smith Nehme | Live musical accompaniment by Andrew Earle Simpson

Two American Marines (Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe) battle over women around the world, starting with good-time girl “Shanghai Mabel” (Phyllis Haver). When they reach France during World War I, their boisterous competition is redirected toward a French innkeeper’s fiery daughter, Charmaine (Dolores Del Río). Their coarse rivalry gives way to the horrors of war with an extended battle sequence that balances male camaraderie against the human toll of battle. WHAT PRICE GLORY is perhaps the most foul-mouthed silent film in history — a delight for lip-readers — with the two Marines’ salty language amusingly paraphrased in polite intertitles. DIR Raoul Walsh; SCR James T. O’Donohoe, Malcolm Stuart Boylan, from the play by Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings; PROD William Fox. U.S., 1926, b&w, 116 min. Silent with English intertitles. NOT RATED

Restored in 4K in 2025 by MoMA and The Film Foundation, in collaboration with George Eastman Museum and Academy Film Archive, at the Cineric laboratory, from incomplete original prints and the negatives of the silent and Movietone versions. With the support of the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.

Also part of the 2026 Silent Cinema Showcase.

Run Time: 116 Minutes

Opening Date: Sunday, November 15, 2026

Genre: War

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