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One Increasing Purpose
Film / 1927

One Increasing Purpose

Directed by Harry Beaumont
Drama

★ 10.0/10Audience rating

Stars Edmund Lowe as WWI veteran Slim Paris. Though most of his comrades died in battle, Paris returns home with nary a scratch. This convinces him that his life has a "greater purpose" in the scheme of things, so he sets about to find that purpose.

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Stars Edmund Lowe as WWI veteran Slim Paris. Though most of his comrades died in battle, Paris returns home with nary a scratch. This convinces him that his life has a "greater purpose" in the scheme of things, so he sets about to find that purpose.

Cast

Edmund LoweSlim Paris Lila LeeElizabeth Glade Holmes HerbertCharles Paris May AllisonLinda Travers Paris Lawford DavidsonDr. Byrne Emily FitzroyMrs. Andiron Huntley GordonAndrew Paris George IrvingMr. Glade Josef SwickardOld Gand Jane NovakAlice Paris Nicholas SoussaninJule Frank Elliott
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Tom MaguireBlinky Gwynneth BristoweMrs. Yeoman J. Fisher WhiteMr. Yeoman (as Fisher White) Pat Somerset

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