Movie: 4 Devils

Top 10 Billed Cast

Janet Gaynor
Janet Gaynor

Marion

Mary Duncan
Mary Duncan

The Lady

Charles Morton
Charles Morton

Charles

Barry Norton
Barry Norton

Adolf

J. Farrell MacDonald
J. Farrell MacDonald

The Clown

Anders Randolf
Anders Randolf

Cecchi

Anita Louise
Anita Louise

Louise as a girl

Anne Shirley
Anne Shirley

Marion as a girl

Nancy Drexel
Nancy Drexel

Louise

George Davis
George Davis

Mean Clown

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    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."

  • Release Date

    1928-10-03

  • Average

    7

  • Rating:

    3.5 starts
  • Tagline

    A SWINGING CIRCUS TRAPEZE BECOMES THE PENDULUM OF PASSION!

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  • Languages:

    English
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