Sins of the Fathers (1928 film)
Sins of the Fathers is a 1928 American part-talkie drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released by Paramount Pictures. 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]
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| Directed by | Ludwig Berger |
| Produced by | Famous Players-Lasky |
| Screenplay by | E. Lloyd Sheldon Julian Johnson |
| Story by | Norman Burnstine |
| Starring | Emil Jannings Ruth Chatterton Zasu Pitts |
| Music by | Hugo Riesenfeld |
| Cinematography | Victor Milner Slavko Vorkapic (montage sequence) |
| Edited by | Frances Marsh |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 10 reels; 2320 meters; 7,611 feet |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Sound film (English intertitles) |
Cast
- 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)
Survival status
It 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]
References
- 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
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