Four Sons

original title:
Four Sons
other titles:
(Vier Söhne)
country / year of production:
USA / 1940
original length:
89 min. , black/white
premiere:
7 June 1940
genre:
melodrama
based on:
Ida Alexa Ross Wylie. "Grandma Bernle Learns Her Letters". In: Saturday Evening Post, 11 September 1926.
director:
Archie Mayo
film script:
John Howard Lawson , I.A.R. Wylie
producer:
Darryl F. Zanuck , Harry Joe Brown
cinematographer:
Leon Shamroy
editor:
composer:
David Buttolph
cast (role):
Don Ameche (Chris Bernic ) , Eugenie Leontovich (Frau Bernic) , Mary Beth Hughes (Anna ) , Alan Curtis (Karl ) , George Ernest (Fritz ) , Don Ameche , Eugenie Leontovich , Mary Beth Hughes , Alan Curtis , George Ernest
more:
Robert Lowery (Joseph ) , Robert Lowery
plot synopsis:
When the Germans invade Czechoslovakia the four sons of a Czecho-German family follow different paths: Czech patriot (Ameche), Nazi supporter (Curtis), artist in America (Lowery), and German soldier (Ernest).
keywords:
occupation , family on both sides of the front , invasion , resistance, opposition
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
remarks:
Remake of Ford`s version of 1928.
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