Seven Sinners (1925 film)
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| Directed by | Lewis Milestone |
| Produced by | Howard Hughes |
| Screenplay by | Lewis Milestone |
| Story by | Lewis Milestone Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Starring | Marie Prevost Clive Brook John Patrick Heinie Conklin |
| Cinematography | David Abel |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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68 minutes (7 reels) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English intertitles |
Seven Sinners is a 1925 black-and-white silent crime comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone and written by Milestone and Darryl F. Zanuck.[1][2] The film was produced by Warner Bros. Pictures.[3]
Although Milestone had directed short training films for the U.S. War Department in 1918 and 1919, and acted as assistant director on the 1921 William A. Seiter film The Foolish Age, this was his feature film directorial debut.[4][5][6]
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Plot
Burglars Molly Brian (Marie Prevost) and Joe Hagney (John Patrick) break into the Vickers mansion on Long Island and loot the safe but are caught in the act by another crook, Jerry Winters (Clive Brook), who takes the money from them. The three are confronted by Pious Joe McDowell (Claude Gillingwater) and his wife Mamie (Mathilde Brundage), also crooks, but who assert themselves as friends of the Vickers family. Moly, Joe, and Jerry introduce themselves in turn as Vickers' household servants. A doctor (Dan Mason) arrives with his patient (Heinie Conklin) and quarantines the house. Unknown to the first five, the Doctor and patient are also crooks who use the ruse of a "quarantine" as part of their own methodology. During the brief quarantine, Molly ends up falling in love with Jerry and the two pledge to go straight. When the police (Fred Kelsey) finally arrive, Pious Joe takes responsibility for the robbery so that Molly and Jerry can escape.
Cast
- Marie Prevost as Molly Brian
- Clive Brook as Jerry Winters
- John Patrick as Handsome Joe Hagney
- Heinie Conklin as Scarlet Fever Sanders
- Claude Gillingwater as Pious Joe McDowell
- Mathilde Brundage as Mamie McDowell
- Dan Mason as Doctor
- Fred Kelsey as Policeman
Contemporary reception
The New York Times wrote the idea "has been worked out in an interesting fashion, with disappointing penitence as a closing touch," and that "picture is quite diverting, and it would have been even better if the humor were lighter in some sequences and if a touch of satire had been included at the finish."[7]
Preservation
The film was presumed lost, Warner Bros. records of the film's negative have a notation, "Junked 12/27/48" (i.e., December 27, 1948). Warner Bros. destroyed many of its negatives in the late 1940s and 1950s due to nitrate film pre-1933 decomposition, but an announcement was made in May 2015 of its rediscovery in Queensland, Australia.[8][9]
See also
References
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- ↑ Sally Browne "Seven Sinners, lost first film by Lewis Milestone, unearthed in Queensland", Courier-Mail, 5 May 2015
- ↑ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:Seven Sinners entry needs updating as the film has been found; Retrieved May 21, 2015
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Seven Sinners at IMDb
- Seven Sinners at AllMovie
- Seven Sinners at the British Film Institute's Film and TV Database
- Seven Sinners at the TCM Movie Database
