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- An American Tragedy (1931) is an American pre-Code drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg and produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
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For years, the Hall family has sought justice for the brutal rape and murder of their 17-year-old daughter; with just hours to live, death row inmate Jeffrey Ferguson faces his final moments while...
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An American Tragedy (1931) is an American pre-Code drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg and produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is based on Theodore Dreiser 's 1925 novel An American Tragedy and its 1926 stage adaptation, which were inspired by the historic 1906 murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette at Big Moose Lake in ...
An American Tragedy is a 1925 novel by American writer Theodore Dreiser. He began the manuscript in the summer of 1920, but a year later abandoned most of that text. It was based on the notorious murder of Grace Brown in 1906 and the trial of her lover, Chester Gillette.
- Theodore Dreiser
- 1925
Mar 12, 2004 · It’s a tragedy all right, but it has little to do with America. In Sternberg’s An American Tragedy, Clyde (Holmes) is tempted by the rich, alluring Sondra (Dee), but he’s stymied by the helpless vulnerability of his factory girlfriend Roberta (Sidney).
Sep 10, 2012 · Time Out says. Faced with Sternberg's distillation of his undeniably great but unreadably turgid novel - about a social climber who murders a factory girl when her pregnancy threatens his romance...
- Josef Von Sternberg
In director Josef von Sternberg's romantic drama, adapted from Theodore Dreiser's 1925 novel of the same name (based on the real-life murder of 20-year-old Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in upstate New York in 1906) - with tragic consequences (later remade as A Place in the Sun (1951)):
Despite a company rule forbidding foremen to fraternize with staff, especially those working in the same department, Clyde begins an affair, a clandestine one out of necessity, with Roberta Alden, who works in the stamping department under him.
