ID

FBW001012      Fiction

Country / Year

USA, 1940

Original Title

Four Sons

Directed by

Archie L. Mayo

Produced by

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY

Staff

Producer: Harry Joe Brown; Script: John Howard Lawson, Milton Sperling, I.A.R. Wylie (based on the story "Four sons"); Camera: Leon Shamroy; Editing: Francis D. Lyon; Production design: Richard Day, Albert Hogsett; Musical direction: David Buttolph

Cast

Don Ameche (Chris); Eugenie Leontovich (Frau Bernie); Wolfgang Zilzer; Mary Beth Hughes (Anna); Alan Curtis ( Karl); George Ernest (Fritz); Robert Lowery (Joseph); Sig Rumann (Newman); Ludwig Stoessel (Pastor); Christian Rub (Kapek); Torben Meyer (Gustav); Egon Brecher (Richter); Eleonor Wesselhoeft (Frau Richter); Michael Visaroff (Burgomaster); Lionel Royce (Max Sturm); Greta Meyer (Frau Sturm); Ernst Hausman (Schmitt); Rudolf Amendt-Anders (als: Rudolf Anders) (Hempel); Hans Schumm (Muller); Frederick Vogeding (Hinckerman); William von Brincken (Gortner); Robert Conway (Storm Trooper); Ragnar Gvale (Storm Trooper)

Length

120'

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Abstract

The fate of a German mother and her four sons during WWII. Three of her sons die. Only Karl who had emigrated to America, survives and fetches his mother at the end of the war.

Subject Terms

Anti-Nazi films (US)

Bibliography

- George, Manfred (als: m.g.): "Anti-Nazi Filme. Ein Beitrag zur Entwicklung der Hollywooder Filmarbeit", in: Aufbau (New York, NY), Jg. 6, Nr. 34, 23.08.1940
- Schwab, Lothar (Red.): Exil. Sechs Schauspieler aus Deutschland. Wolgang Zilzer (Paul Andor), Bd. 6, Berlin/West: Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek, 1983
- Nash, Ray R. / Ross, Stanley R. / Conelly, Robert B. (Ed.): Motion Picture Guide. Chicago, IL: Cinebooks, 1987