Jean: You""re very sweet.Don""t let me go.Self-conscious and shy, Charles steals a look at her legs, and appears to be on the verge of swooning again.The director""s last surviving silent film (and MGM""s last major silent) was essentially a dust bowl tale of a vulnerable young woman""s plight in an alien and fearful environment (of ever-present male sexual advances and violations by the wind) - it could therefore be called the progenitor of all ""women""s pictures"".Meanwhile, Carina fled into an astronomy shop (with a sign reading: "NO DOGS NO WOMEN"), a nautical instrument store where she bought a pocket-sized chronometer (to study an impending "blood moon") from the astonished male store-owner.Is that rue?Melanie: Oh yes there are.Mitch: Well, these are for my sister, for her birthday see, and uh, as she""s only going to be eleven, I, I wouldn""t want a pair of birds that were too demonstrative.Before it, other war films in the silent era had done very well: King Vidor""sThe Big Parade (1925), Raoul Walsh""sWhat Price Glory? (1926), and William Wellman""sWings (1927).