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Sins of the Fathers (film)

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Directed by
  
Ludwig Berger

Music by
  
Hugo Riesenfeld

Director
  
Ludwig Berger

Story by
  
Norman Burnside

7.9/10
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Produced by
  
Famous Players-Lasky

Initial release
  
29 December 1928

Music director
  
Hugo Riesenfeld

Production company
  
Famous Players-Lasky


Screenplay by
  
E. Lloyd Sheldon Julian Johnson

Starring
  
Emil Jannings Ruth Chatterton Zasu Pitts

Cinematography
  
Victor Milner Slavko Vorkapic (montage sequence)

Cast
  
Emil Jannings, Ruth Chatterton, ZaSu Pitts

Similar
  
Street of Sin, The Woman from Mos, The Virtuous Husband

Sins of the Fathers is a 1928 American part-talkie sound film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released by Paramount Pictures. It was also issued in a silent version for theatres 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.

Silentera.com states a print of this film survives. Some Promo or Coming Attraction material is held by the Library of Congress and excerpts are preserved at UCLA Film and Television.

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

    • References

    Sins of the Fathers (film) Wikipedia
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