4 Devils
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Director F. W. Murnau Duration Country United States | 7/10 IMDb Genre Drama Running time 1h 40m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date October 3, 1928 (1928-10-03) (silent version)June 15, 1929 (1929-06-15) (sound version) Writer Berthold Viertel (adaptation), Herman Bang (story), Carl Mayer (scenario), Marion Orth (scenario), John Hunter Booth (dialogue) Screenplay Carl Mayer, Berthold Viertel, Marion Orth, John Hunter Booth Cast (Marion), (The Lady), (Charles), (Adolf), J. Farrell MacDonald (The Clown), (Cecchi)Similar movies Related F W Murnau movies Tagline A SWINGING CIRCUS TRAPEZE BECOMES THE PENDULUM OF PASSION! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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4 Devils (also known as Four Devils) is a lost 1928 American silent drama film directed by German film director F. W. Murnau and starring Janet Gaynor.
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Plot
The plot concerns four orphans (Janet Gaynor, Nancy Drexel, Barry Norton, and Charles Morton) who become a high wire act, and centers around sinister goings-on at a circus.
Cast
Production
4 Devils was released by Fox Film Corporation, and was produced by William Fox, who had hired Murnau to come to the United States. A sound version, incorporating "synchronised sound effects, music and dialogue sequences", was made without Murnau's cooperation.
Preservation status
No copies of either version of the film are known to exist, and 4 Devils remains among the most sought after lost films of the silent era. Details about the movie can be found on the DVD for Sunrise, released by Fox as part of their 20th Century Fox Studio Classics collection.
Film historian and collector William K. Everson stated that the only surviving print was lost by actress Mary Duncan who had borrowed it from Fox Studios. Martin Koerber, curator of Deutsche Kinemathek, is more hopeful, writing that the print was given to Duncan, and that her heirs, if any, may yet have it.
References
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