4 Devils (1928)
The circus provides the backdrop for this melodrama that chronicles the lives of four children raised within the big top. Film historian and collector William K. Everson stated that the only surviving print was lost by actress Mary Duncan who had borrowed it from Fox Studios. In the December 1974 issue of "Films in Review," he explained that Mary Duncan, one of the film's stars, wanted it to show to a group of friends in Florida. The star was aware that it was a dangerous nitrate print and assumed that Fox had others. She threw the only copy in the ocean, a mistake characterized by Everson as "a monumental blunder to rank with Balaclava, Sarajevo, and the Fall of Babylon as one of history's blackest moments."
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Janet Gaynor
as Marion
as Marion
Mary Duncan
as The Lady
as The Lady
Charles Morton
as Charles
as Charles
Barry Norton
as Adolf
as Adolf
J. Farrell MacDonald
as The Clown
as The Clown
Anders Randolf
as Cecchi
as Cecchi
Anita Louise
as Louise as a girl
as Louise as a girl
Anne Shirley
as Marion as a girl
as Marion as a girl
Nancy Drexel
as Louise
as Louise
George Davis
as Mean Clown
as Mean Clown
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F. W. Murnau
Director
Director
Harold D. Schuster
Editor
Editor
Berthold Viertel
Writer
Writer
Edgar G. Ulmer
Assistant Art Director
Assistant Art Director
S.L. Rothafel
Music
Music
Carl Mayer
Scenario Writer
Scenario Writer
Marion Orth
Scenario Writer
Scenario Writer
Herman Bang
Story
Story
L. William O'Connell
Director of Photography
Director of Photography
Ernest Palmer
Director of Photography
Director of Photography
Harold Hobson
Sound
Sound
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