4 Devils
A SWINGING CIRCUS TRAPEZE BECOMES THE PENDULUM OF PASSION!
1928 | 100m | English
Popularity: 1.0 (history)
| Director: | F. W. Murnau |
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| Writer: | Berthold Viertel, Herman Bang |
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| The circus provides the backdrop for this melodrama that chronicles the lives of four children raised within the big top. 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. In the December 1974 issue of "Films in Review," he explained that Mary Duncan, one of the film's stars, wanted it to show to a group of friends in Florida. The star was aware that it was a dangerous nitrate print and assumed that Fox had others. She threw the only copy in the ocean, a mistake characterized by Everson as "a monumental blunder to rank with Balaclava, Sarajevo, and the Fall of Babylon as one of history's blackest moments." | |
| Release Date: | Oct 03, 1928 |
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| Director: | F. W. Murnau |
| Writer: | Berthold Viertel, Herman Bang |
| Genres: | Action, Drama |
| Keywords | circus, trapeze, lost film |
| Production Companies | Fox Film Corporation |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 26, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Janet Gaynor | Marion |
| Mary Duncan | The Lady |
| Charles Morton | Charles |
| Barry Norton | Adolf |
| J. Farrell MacDonald | The Clown |
| Anders Randolf | Cecchi |
| Anita Louise | Louise as a girl |
| Anne Shirley | Marion as a girl |
| Nancy Drexel | Louise |
| George Davis | Mean Clown |
| Name | Job |
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| F. W. Murnau | Director |
| Edgar G. Ulmer | Assistant Art Director |
| Berthold Viertel | Writer |
| Herman Bang | Story |
| Carl Mayer | Scenario Writer |
| Marion Orth | Scenario Writer |
| S.L. Rothafel | Music |
| Harold D. Schuster | Editor |
| L. William O'Connell | Director of Photography |
| Ernest Palmer | Director of Photography |
| Harold Hobson | Sound |
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