Four Sons (1928)
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A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with L'Imaginne Ritrovato and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1999.
Casting
- Margaret Mann — Mother Bernle
- James Hall — Joseph - Her son
- Charles Morton — Johann - Her Son
- Francis X. Bushman Jr. — Franz - Her Son
- George Meeker — Andreas - Her Son
- June Collyer — Annabelle
- Earle Foxe — Major von Stomm
- Albert Gran — The Postman
- Frank Reicher — The Schoolmaster
- Archduke Leopold of Austria — A Captain
- Ferdinand Schumann-Heink — A Staff Sergeant
- Jack Pennick — The Iceman
Interesting facts
Four Sons is a 1928 American synchronized sound drama film directed and produced by John Ford and written for the screen by Philip Klein from a story by I. A. R. Wylie first published in the Saturday Evening Post as "Grandmother Bernle Learns Her Letters" (1926). While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-film movietone process.
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