Sins of the Fathers (1928 film)
1928 film
- December 29, 1928 (1928-12-29)
Running time
(English Intertitles)
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]
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)
Music
The film featured a theme song entitled "Little Fellow" which was composed by Pat Heale, David Paget and Walter Collins
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]
See also
- List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
References
- ^ 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
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sins of the Fathers (1928 film).
- 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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Films directed by Ludwig Berger
- The Mayor of Zalamea (1920)
- The Story of Christine von Herre (1921)
- A Glass of Water (1923)
- The Lost Shoe (1923)
- A Waltz Dream (1925)
- The Master of Nuremberg (1927)
- The Street of Sin (1928)
- The Woman from Moscow (1928)
- Sins of the Fathers (1928)
- The Burning Heart (1929)
- The Vagabond King (1930)
- Playboy of Paris (1930)
- The Little Cafe (1931)
- I by Day, You by Night (1932)
- À moi le jour, à toi la nuit (1932)
- Waltz War (1933)
- Early to Bed (1933)
- Court Waltzes (1933)
- Pygmalion (1937)
- Three Waltzes (1938)
- Ergens in Nederland (1940)
- The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
- Ballerina (1950)
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