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Sins of the Fathers is a 1928 American sound part-talkie drama film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and released by Paramount Pictures. Like the majority of films during the early sound era, it was also issued in a silent version for theaters which were not yet wired for sound. The film was directed by Ludwig Berger and stars Emil Jannings and Ruth Chatterton in her motion picture debut.[1]
| Sins of the Fathers | |
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 Lobby poster | |
| Directed by | Ludwig Berger |
| Screenplay by | E. Lloyd Sheldon Julian Johnson |
| Story by | Norman Burnstine |
| Produced by | Famous Players–Lasky |
| Starring | Emil Jannings Ruth Chatterton Zasu Pitts |
| Cinematography | Victor Milner Slavko Vorkapic (montage sequence) |
| Edited by | Frances Marsh |
| Music by | Hugo Riesenfeld |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 10 reels; 2320 meters; 7,611 feet |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Sound film (Part-Talkie) (English Intertitles) |
Cast
edit- Emil Jannings as Wilhelm Spengler
- Ruth Chatterton as Greta Blake
- Barry Norton as Tom Spengler
- Jean Arthur as Mary Spengler
- Jack Luden as Otto Schmidt
- ZaSu Pitts as Mother Spengler
- Matthew Betz as Gus Newman
- Harry Cording as The Hijacker
- Arthur Housman as The Count
- Frank Reicher as The Eye Specialist
- Douglas Haig as Tom, as a child
- Dawn O'Day (later known as Anne Shirley) as Mary, as a child
- Milla Davenport as Bit Part (uncredited)
- Speed Webb and His Orchestra (uncredited)
Music
editThe film featured a theme song entitled "Little Fellow" which was composed by Pat Heale, David Paget and Walter Collins
Survival status
editIt has been reported that a print of Sins of the Fathers survives.[1] Some promotional or Coming Attraction material is held by the Library of Congress and excerpts are preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.[2][3]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Progressive Silent Film List: Sins of the Fathers at silentera.com
- ^ Internet Movie Database; Trivia Retrieved September 29, 2016
- ^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, p. 166 (which redirects to p. 33) c.1978 published by the American Film Institute
External links
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- Sins of the Fathers at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- Sins of the Fathers at IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
- Still #1 and #2 at gettyimages.com
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