Vintage original 8x10 in. US lobby card from the teens WWI-themed silent film drama, THE CLAWS OF THE HUN, released in 1918 by Paramount Pictures and directed by Victor Schertzinger. Based on a story by Ella Stuart Carson and R. Cecil Smith, the film stars Charles Ray, Jane Novak, Robert McKim, Dorcas Matthews, Melbourne MacDowell, and Mollie McConnell and was released on June 30, 1918 while the war was still raging in Europe. The image features an interior long shot inside the luxurious home of young John Stanton (Charles Ray) as his father, Godfrey (Melbourne MacDowell), pleads with him not to enlist in the war while cast member Henry A. Barrows watches father and son. It is unrestored in fine+ condition with a light uneven trim on the bottom border with light signs of wear in the bottom border near the right corner; one pinhole in the top and right borders; and light signs of wear on the top right corner. There are no tears, stains, writing, or other flaws. Like many American films of the time, The Claws of the Hun was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors cut, in Reel 5, a scene of a man's hand in a press, three scenes of a man turning the press, and the shooting of the American boy. Plot: When the United States enters World War I, John Stanton wants to enlist, but his sick mother prevents him from going "over there" by telling him that the shock of his leaving would kill her. Frustrated when his friends and his fiancée, Virginia Lee, label him a slacker, John goes on a drinking spree and later is put into the room occupied by Alfred Werner, a German spy in the confidence of the elder Stanton, a munitions manufacturer. When John learns of Werner's plot to secure Godfrey Stanton's formula for a powerful explosive, he foils the plan and rescues his father at the risk of his own life. John's mother, realizing the necessity of defeating the Germans, sends her son off to war with her blessing.