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词条 Four Sons
释义

  1. Plot

  2. Preservation

  3. Cast

  4. References

  5. External links

{{About|the 1928 film|the remake|Four Sons (1940 film)}}{{Infobox film
| name = Four Sons
| image = Foursonsposter.jpg
| image_size = 200px
| caption = Original 1928 film poster
| director = John Ford
| producer = {{plainlist|
  • John Ford
  • William Fox

}}
| writer = {{plainlist|
  • Philip Klein

}}
| based on = {{based on|"Grandmother Bernle Learns Her Letters"|I. A. R. Wylie}}
| starring = {{plainlist|
  • Margaret Mann
  • James Hall
  • Charles Morton
  • Ralph Bushman
  • George Meeker

}}
| cinematography = {{plainlist|
  • Charles G. Clarke
  • George Schneiderman

}}
| editing = Margaret Clancey
| distributor = Fox Film Corporation
| released = {{Film date|1928|02|12|USA}}
| runtime = 100 minutes
| country = United States
| gross = $1.5 million[1]
| language = {{plainlist|
  • Silent film
  • English intertitles

}}
}}

Four Sons is a 1928 silent 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).

It is one of only a handful of survivors out of the more than 50 silent films Ford directed between 1917 and 1928. It starred Margaret Mann, James Hall, and Charles Morton. The film is also notable for the presence of the young John Wayne in an uncredited role as an officer. Though "silent," it was released with a Movietone music and sound effects track.

A family is torn apart by the advent of World War I. It was remade in 1940 with the same title, starring Don Ameche and Eugenie Leontovich, and directed by Archie Mayo, although the war was updated to World War II.

Plot

Mother Bernle is a widow in Bavaria with four sons: Franz, Johann, Andreas and Joseph.

Joseph receives a job offer from the United States, and he is given money to travel there by his mother.

The First World War is heating up. Franz, who is already serving in the German army, is joined by first Johann and then Andreas who is forced into the army.

In New York, Joseph is married with a newborn son. He is running a delicatessen and when America enters the war, Joseph enlists to fight for the American side. When Joseph's enlistment is discovered, it causes problems for Mother Bernle because she is shunned in her village.

Franz and Johann are killed on the Eastern Front. Andreas is wounded on the Western Front and dies in the arms of his brother Joseph.

Joseph returns to New York to discover that the delicatessen has prospered in his absence. He sends for his mother to join him, and she departs her village only to end up hopelessly lost wandering New York. A policeman brings her to Joseph's apartment, where she joyfully joins her son, daughter-in-law and grandson.

Preservation

The Academy Film Archive preserved Four Sons in 1999.[2]

Cast

  • Margaret Mann as Mother Bernle
  • James Hall as Joseph "Dutch" Bernle
  • Charles Morton as Johann Bernle
  • Ralph Bushman as Franz Bernle
  • George Meeker as Andreas Bernle
  • June Collyer as Annabelle
  • Earle Foxe as Maj. von Stomm
  • Albert Gran as The postman
  • Frank Reicher as The schoolmaster
  • Archduke Leopold of Austria as a captain
  • Hughie Mack as The Innkeeper (uncredited)
  • August Tollaire as The Bürgermeister (uncredited)
  • Robert Parrish as Joseph's son (uncredited)
  • John Wayne as Officer (uncredited)

References

1. ^[https://archive.org/stream/international193738quig#page/942/mode/2up/search/%22box+office%22 Quigley Publishing Company "The All Time Best Sellers", International Motion Picture Almanac 1937-38 (1938) p 942] accessed 19 April 2014
2. ^{{cite web|title=Preserved Projects|url=http://www.oscars.org/academy-film-archive/preserved-projects?title=Four+Sons&filmmaker=&category=All&collection=All|website=Academy Film Archive}}

External links

  • {{IMDb title|0018909}}
  • Four Sons at Virtual History
{{John Ford}}

12 : 1928 films|1920s drama films|American films|American drama films|American silent feature films|World War I films|Films about immigration to the United States|American black-and-white films|Films directed by John Ford|Fox Film films|Transitional sound films|Films set in Germany

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