The Man Who Came Back (1931)
1h 14m
Running Time
January 11, 1931Release Date
The Man Who Came Back (1931)
1h 14m
Running Time
January 11, 1931Release Date
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Plot.
A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable man of himself.
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Cast & Crew.
Janet Gaynor
Angie Randolph
Mary Forbes
Mrs. Gaynes
Charles Farrell
Stephen Randolph
Kenneth MacKenna
Capt. Trevelyan
William Holden
Thomas Randolph
William Worthington
Captain Gallon
Raoul Walsh
Director
John Fleming Wilson
Writer
Peter Gawthorne
Griggs
Jules Eckert Goodman
Writer
Leslie Fenton
Baron le Duc
Edwin J. Burke
Writer
Charles K. Gerrard
Gibson
Olive Young
Maid (uncredited)
S. N. Behrman
Writer
Ullrich Haupt
Captain Gallon
George S. Brooks
Writer
Arthur Edeson
Director of Photography
Humphrey Bogart
Vocal Coach
Harold D. Schuster
Editor
Sonya Levien
Writer
Sophie Wachner
Costume Design
Peter Brunelli
Original Music Composer
Arthur Kay
Original Music Composer
Owen Davis
Writer
Frank Merlin
Writer
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Wiki.
The Man Who Came Back is a 1931 American Pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. The movie was adapted to screen by Edwin J. Burke from the play by Jules Eckert Goodman.A Fox property for many years, it had been filmed before in the silent era in 1924 with George O'Brien and Dorothy Mackaill in the leads. A Spanish-language version called Road of Hell was made in the same year.
Gaynor and Farrell made almost a dozen films together, including Frank Borzage's classics Seventh Heaven (1927), Street Angel (1928), and Lucky Star (1929); Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress for the first two and F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927).