The World Moves On

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.

Top Cast

Madeleine Carroll

Mrs. Warburton, 1825 / Mary Warburton Girard, 1914

Franchot Tone

Richard Girard - 1825 / Richard Girard - 1914

Reginald Denny

Erik von Gerhardt

Sig Ruman

Baron von Gerhardt (as Siegfried Rumann)

Louise Dresser

Baroness von Gerhardt