The World Moves On

June. 27,1934      NR
Rating:
5.9
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to stand by each other in a belief that a great business firmly established in four countries will be able to withstand even such another calamity as the Napoleonic Wars from which Europe is slowly recovering. Then many years later, along comes World War One and the years that follow, to test the businesses.

Madeleine Carroll as  Mrs. Warburton, 1825 / Mary Warburton Girard, 1914
Franchot Tone as  Richard Girard - 1825 / Richard Girard - 1914
Reginald Denny as  Erik von Gerhardt
Sig Ruman as  Baron von Gerhardt (as Siegfried Rumann)
Louise Dresser as  Baroness von Gerhardt
Raul Roulien as  Carlos Girard (1825) / Henri Girard (1914)
Stepin Fetchit as  Dixie
Lumsden Hare as  Gabriel Warburton (1825) / Sir John Warburton (1914)
Dudley Digges as  Mr. Manning
Frank Melton as  John Girard (1825)

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