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4 Devils

NR
DramaAction
7/10(3 ratings)

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."

10-03-1928
1h 40m
4 Devils
Backdrop for 4 Devils

Main Cast

Janet Gaynor

Janet Gaynor

Marion

Mary Duncan

Mary Duncan

The Lady

Charles Morton

Charles Morton

Charles

Barry Norton

Barry Norton

Adolf

J. Farrell MacDonald

J. Farrell MacDonald

The Clown

Cecchi

Anita Louise

Anita Louise

Louise as a girl

Movie Details

Production Info

Director:
F. W. Murnau
Writer:
Berthold Viertel
Production:
Fox Film Corporation

Key Crew

Director:
F. W. Murnau
Editor:
Harold D. Schuster
Writer:
Berthold Viertel
Assistant Art Director:
Edgar G. Ulmer
Scenario Writer:
Marion Orth

Locations and Languages

Country:
US
Filming:
US
Languages:
en