Directed by:
Josef von SternbergScreenplay:
Samuel HoffensteinCinematography:
Lee GarmesCast:
Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Frances Dee, Irving Pichel, Claire McDowell, Arline Judge, Claire Dodd, Charles Middleton, Arnold Korff, Matty Roubert (more)Plots(1)
Clyde (Phillips Holmes), a poor garment worker with a past he wishes to forget, has a shot at the good life when he meets heiress Sondra (Frances Dee). But when his clandestine girlfriend Roberta (Sylvia Sidney) announces she is pregnant, Clyde considers drastic actions in order to preserve his dream of affluence. (Powerhouse Films)
Cast
Phillips Holmes
USA
Best movies:
Dinner at Eight (1933)
An American Tragedy (1931)
Sylvia Sidney
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
Dead End (1937)
An Early Frost (1985) (TV movie)
Frances Dee
USA
Best movies:
Come and Get It (1936)
Little Women (1933)
Of Human Bondage (1934)
Irving Pichel
USA
Best movies:
Jezebel (1938)
Juarez (1939)
They Won't Believe Me (1947)
Claire McDowell
USA
Best movies:
It Happened One Night (1934)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
4 Devils (1928)
Arline Judge
USA
Best movies:
An American Tragedy (1931)
The Mysterious Mr. Wong (1934)
Claire Dodd
USA
Best movies:
The Black Cat (1941)
Roberta (1935)
Footlight Parade (1933)
Charles Middleton
USA
Best movies:
The Good Earth (1937)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Arnold Korff
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
An American Tragedy (1931)
The Haunted Castle (1921)
Matty Roubert
USA
Best movies:
It Happened One Night (1934)
Shall We Dance? (1937)
Texas (1941)
Harry Semels
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Sunrise (1927)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Russ Powell
USA
Best movies:
The Mysterious Lady (1928)
Modern Times (1936)
Flesh and the Devil (1926)
Nella Walker
USA
Best movies:
Sabrina (1954)
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
George Irving
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Emmett Corrigan
Netherlands
Best movies:
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
Me and My Gal (1932)
An American Tragedy (1931)
Richard Cramer
USA
Best movies:
After the Thin Man (1936)
Scarlet Street (1945)
Dodge City (1939)
Ed Brady
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
City Girl (1930)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Guy Oliver
USA
Best movies:
Beggars of Life (1928)
The Last Command (1928)
Male and Female (1919)
Franklin Parker
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Fury (1936)
Libeled Lady (1936)
James Durkin
Canada
Best movies:
Scarface (1932)
The Power and the Glory (1933)
An American Tragedy (1931)