Thank you sir!

There certainly was a little hesitance from their side

The most gripping scene from that entire movie, so well executed but oh man... I have watched this movie (1930) with history class back in 2012/2013 and I still vividly remember the boots scene because it is so beautifully done, displaying a haunting set of events. Here is a description, which I would urge you to not read if you want to see the movie.

>!&gt;!At some point in the story, one of the classmates (don't remember his name, let's call him A) has become wounded and his leg(s?) needed to be amputated. Some of A's classmate/friends are standing around him and they see A still got his new pair of boots that were send from home. One of the friends (B) basically says that the wounded A should give the boots to him because A doesn't have a need for them anymore. Some arguing ensues after which the classmates except one of them (let's call him C) leaves where A tells C that he should give B, A's boots. At which point A dies.!<!<

>!&gt;!What ensues is the most griping sequence of scenes from this movie. B gets the shoes and dies from any of the horrors of the 1st world war, say a bullet in the trenches. The shoes get passed to D, who dies of say gas. The shoes get passed to E, who dies of say a gatling gun. The shoes get passed to F who dies of say a shell. So basically you have a sequence of deaths of the classmates followed through the perspective of the boots, showing the horrible ways people could die in the trenches!<!<

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