Jimmy Higgings (1928)

Plot Summary

Jimmy Higgings is a worker of the plant making weapons for the Tsarist Russia and the German Empire. During World War I, Jimmy speaks at a spontaneous rally against the war. He is arrested. When released, he becomes unemployed. He is happy to hear the news about the revolution; he volunteers into the American expeditionary force thinking that having the weapons he can fight against Germans – the enemies of the Russian revolution. However, finding himself in Russia, Jimmy soon realises that the expeditionary force of American volunteers fights not against the Germans, but against the young Socialist Russia. Without any hesitations, he takes the path of revolutionary struggle, he spreads propaganda among the American soldiers and distributes Bolshevik leaflets. Captured by the American military police, Jimmy Higgings does not betray his friends. He is sentenced to twenty years in a military prison. Jimmy cannot stand it and loses his mind. Lost movie.

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Amvrosii Buchma

Jimmy Higgins

Elena Adamaytis-Astangova

Lizzie Higgins

Boris Shlikhting

Bill Murray

V. Kolpashnikov

Abel Grenich

Konstantin Koshevskiy

Lassie, Abel's son

Vladimir Lanskoy

Edwin Wood

Yuliya Solntseva

Ellen

Ivan Zamychkovskyi

Doctor Servus

B. Goncharov

Schneider, brewer

Nikolai Panov

Ganneth

Gavriil Marinchak

Kalinkin

Polina Skliar-Otava

Mabel Smith

Director & Crew

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