Broken in the Wars is a 1919 British

Cinema of the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...

 silent

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Cecil Hepworth

Cecil Hepworth

Cecil Milton Hepworth was an English film director, producer and screenwriter. He was among the founders of the British film industry and continued making films into the 1920s....

 and starring Henry Edwards

Henry Edwards (actor)

Henry Edwards was an English actor and film director. He appeared in 81 films between 1915 and 1952. He also directed 67 films between 1915 and 1937...

, Chrissie White

Chrissie White

Chrissie White was a British film actress of the silent era. She appeared in over 180 films between 1908 and 1933. White was married to actor and film director Henry Edwards, and in the 1920s the two were regarded as one of Britain's most famous and newsworthy celebrity couples. She starred in...

 and Alma Taylor

Alma Taylor

- Life :Taylor was born in London. She made her first screen appearance as a child actor in the 1907 film His Daughter's Voice. She went on to appear in more than 150 film roles, appearing in a number of larger-budget films such as Shadow of Egypt which was shot on location in Egypt in 1924. Taylor...

. The Pensions Minister John Hodge

John Hodge

John Hodge is a British screenwriter, most noted for his adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel Trainspotting into the script for the film of the same title...

 appeared in the film to promote the King's Fund, which supported recently demobalised ex-servicemen. A cobbler

Cobbler

Cobbler may refer to:* A shoemaker who repairs shoes, rather than manufacturing them .** Cobbler apron, a type of apron that covers both the front and back of the body...

 returning from the First World War is persuaded by his aristocratic former employer and the Pensions Minister to receive a grant that will enable him to open his own shop. It was made by the Hepworth Company.

Cast

• Henry Edwards
  Henry Edwards (actor)
  Henry Edwards was an English actor and film director. He appeared in 81 films between 1915 and 1952. He also directed 67 films between 1915 and 1937...
  
   - Joe
• Chrissie White
  Chrissie White
  Chrissie White was a British film actress of the silent era. She appeared in over 180 films between 1908 and 1933. White was married to actor and film director Henry Edwards, and in the 1920s the two were regarded as one of Britain's most famous and newsworthy celebrity couples. She starred in...
  
   - Mrs. Joe
• Alma Taylor
  Alma Taylor
  - Life :Taylor was born in London. She made her first screen appearance as a child actor in the 1907 film His Daughter's Voice. She went on to appear in more than 150 film roles, appearing in a number of larger-budget films such as Shadow of Egypt which was shot on location in Egypt in 1924. Taylor...
  
   - Lady Dorothea
• John Hodge
  John Hodge
  John Hodge is a British screenwriter, most noted for his adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel Trainspotting into the script for the film of the same title...
  
   - Himself
• Gerald Ames
  Gerald Ames
  Gerald Ames was a British actor, film director and Olympic fencer. Ames was born in Blackheath in 1880 and first took up acting in 1905...
  
   - Customer
• John MacAndrews
  John MacAndrews
  -Selected filmography:* Far from the Madding Crowd * Barnaby Rudge * Trelawny of the Wells * The Hanging Judge * The Poet's Windfall * His Dearest Possession * The Forest on the Hill...
  
  - Customer