An American Tragedy

Director: Josef von Sternberg

Overview

Given a cushy company job by wealthy relatives and about to romance their lovely daughter, a misguided young man accidentally kills a co-worker he's impregnated, spurned by all but the girl he loves when he is tried for murder. An adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's fact-based novel of crime and tragedy.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/11/2015
UPC:	0025192313332
Original Release:	1931
Language:	English
Time:	1:37:00
Sales rank:	41,291

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Phillips Holmes	Clyde Griffiths
Frances Dee	Sondra Finchley
Sylvia Sidney	Roberta Alden
Irving Pichel	Orville Mason
Frederick Burton	Samuel Griffiths
Claire McDowell	Mrs. Samuel Griffiths
Wallace Middleton	Gilbert Griffiths,Jephson,Jephson
Vivian Winston	Myra Griffiths
Emmett Corrigan	Belknap
Lucille La Verne	Mrs. Asa Griffiths
Albert Hart	Titus Alden
Fanny Midgley	Mrs. Alden
Arline Judge	Bella Griffiths
Evelyn Pierce	Bertine Cranson
Arnold Korff	Judge
Elizabeth Forrester	Jill Trumbell
Imboden Parrish	Earl Newcomb
Russ Powell	Coroner Fred Heit,Fred Heit, coroner
Dick Cramer	Deputy Sheriff Kraut
Claire Dodd	Grace Warren
George Irving	Finchley

Technical Credits

Josef von Sternberg

Samuel Hoffenstein

Josef von Sternberg	Producer,Screenwriter
Jesse Lasky	Producer
Adolph Zukor	Producer
Samuel Hoffenstein	Screenwriter