4 Devils

Synopsis

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."

Main Cast

Janet Gaynor

Marion

Age : 77 | Popularity : 64%

Mary Duncan

The Lady

Age : 97 | Popularity : 5%

Charles Morton

Charles

Age : 59 | Popularity : 22%

Barry Norton

Adolf

Age : 51 | Popularity : 24%

J. Farrell MacDonald

The Clown

Age : N/A | Popularity : 27%

Anders Randolf

Cecchi

Age : N/A | Popularity : 6%

Anita Louise

Louise as a girl

Age : 55 | Popularity : 33%

Anne Shirley

Marion as a girl

Age : 75 | Popularity : 26%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	F. W. Murnau
Writing	Writer	Berthold Viertel
	Scenario Writer	Marion Orth Carl Mayer
	Story	Herman Bang
Art	Assistant Art Director	Edgar G. Ulmer
Editing	Editor	Harold D. Schuster
Sound	Music	S.L. Rothafel
	Sound	Harold Hobson
Camera	Director of Photography	L. William O'Connell Ernest Palmer
Department	Role	Name

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