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Four Sons

1928 · 100 min · US

Directed by John Ford

John Ford, Fox, 1928. A Bavarian mother watches her boys go to war on opposite sides of 1914. Margaret Mann at the center; Ford still early in his Fox period. Silent (with a prepared Movietone score in some markets), roughly a hundred minutes. The Commons print carries the family melodrama without much speechifying.

War · Drama

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1928 · Source: Wikimedia Commons

Public domain presentation

Public Domain Source

Wikimedia Commons · FM-49 ingest; wikimedia full video

Video: John Ford · Public domain · Source: File page

Cast & Crew

John Ford · DirectorMargaret Mann · Mother BernleJames Hall · Joseph - Her son

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Cast

Principal players
M

Margaret Mann

Mother Bernle

J

James Hall

Joseph - Her son

C

Charles Morton

Johann - Her Son

F

Francis X. Bushman Jr.

Franz - Her Son

G

George Meeker

Andreas - Her Son

Crew

I.A.R. Wylie

writer

Herman Bing

writer

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