BEHIND THE LINES [Main]

The film opens with Marshal Joffre talking to General Pershing. It then shows French soldiers in the rear area peeling potatoes, moving around woods, saddling pack horses to take them for a ride, and generally performing routine duties. Other men build corduroy roads or join in road-mending gangs. A bridge is built over a river using a pile-driver. A pontoon bridge is built. Infantry and guns move…