..Many a thing you know you""d like o tell her, many a thing she ought to understand...How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?In the Reverend Mother""s chambers, the tardy Maria apologizes profusely for being distracted by the majestic scenery, and she begs for forgiveness: "I just couldn""t help myself.It""s a stinking world because it lets the young get onto the old, like you done.Oh...it""s no world for an old man any longer.What sort of a world is it at all? Men on the moon, and men spinning around the earth, and there""s not no attention paid to earthly law and order no more.There in the stockroom, he is assaulted by Bogs Diamond and two other predatory men (the Sisters) who taunt him and beat him senseless: "That""s it.BackgroundThe Big Parade(1925) is director/producer King Vidor""s most famous, precedent-setting war film from the silent era.