Pilgrimage is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by John Ford. Based on a short story by I.A.R. Wylie, the film stars Henrietta Crosman as an Arkansas mother who arranges for her son to be enlisted in the Army during the Great War to prevent him from marrying the woman he loves.
The film's title refers to trips that the American Gold Star Mothers organization arranged beginning in the late 1920s, enabling mothers and widows of fallen soldiers to visit the overseas grave sites of their loved ones.
Though it received positive reviews upon its release, Pilgrimage was a box office disappointment for Fox.
Cast
Henrietta Crosman as Mrs. Hannah Jessop
Heather Angel as Suzanne
Norman Foster as Jim 'Jimmy' Jessop (Hannah's son)
Lucille La Verne as Mrs. Kelly Hatfield
Maurice Murphy as Gary Worth
Marian Nixon as Mary Saunders
Jay Ward as Jimmy Saunders (Mary and Jimmy Hessop's son)
Robert Warwick as Major Albertson
Louise Carter as Mrs. Rogers
Betty Blythe as Janet Prescot
Francis Ford as Mayor Elmer Briggs
Charley Grapewin as Dad Saunders
Hedda Hopper as Mrs. Worth (Gary Worth's mother)
Frances Rich as The Nurse
Shirley Palmer as Nurse