Behind the Front
Theatrical poster
Directed by	A. Edward Sutherland
Written by	Monte Brice (adaptation) Ethel Doherty (screenplay)
Based on	The Spoils of War by Hugh Wiley
Produced by	Adolph Zukor Jesse Lasky
Starring	Wallace Beery Raymond Hatton
Cinematography	Charles P. Boyle
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	February 22, 1926 (1926-02-22)
Running time	6 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Behind the Front is a 1926 American silent war comedy film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton. It was produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures.^[1][2] The film was based on the novel The Spoils of War by Hugh Wiley.^[3]

As described in a film magazine review,^[4] two men, enemies in civil life, enlist in the army during World War I at the behest of a young woman who tells each of them that she loves him. They become buddies and share a medley of mishaps behind the lines in France. They return to America and go to the young woman’s house. There they find her the central figure in a wedding. They maul her husband-to-be and leave. A small incident recreates their enmity towards each other and their private war begins again.

A print of Behind the Front is located in the George Eastman Museum Motion Picture Collection and UCLA Film and Television Archive.^[5]

• An excerpt from the film appears in the 1931 Paramount promotional film The House That Shadows Built
• Gertrude Astor filmography

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