Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
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Cast & Crew.
George O’Brien
The Man (Anses)
Janet Gaynor
The Wife (Indre)
Margaret Livingston
The Woman from the City
Bodil Rosing
The Maid
J. Farrell MacDonald
The Photographer
Ralph Sipperly
The Barber
Jane Winton
The Manicure Girl
Arthur Housman
The Obtrusive Gentleman
Eddie Boland
The Obliging Gentleman
Herman Bing
Streetcar Conductor (uncredited) / Assistant Director
Sidney Bracey
Dance Hall Manager (uncredited)
Gino Corrado
Manager of Hair Salon (uncredited)
Vondell Darr
(uncredited)
Sally Eilers
Woman in Dance Hall (uncredited)
Gibson Gowland
Angry Driver (uncredited)
Katherine Hilliker
Writer
H.H. Caldwell
Writer
Thomas Jefferson
Old Seaman (uncredited)
Bob Kortman
Villager (uncredited)
F. W. Murnau
Dancer (uncredited) / Director
Barry Norton
Ballroom Dancer / Kissing Couple (uncredited)
Robert Parrish
Boy (uncredited)
Sally Phipps
Ballroom Dancer / Kissing Couple (uncredited)
Harry Semels
Carnival Gallery Man with Pig (uncredited)
Phillips Smalley
Head Waiter (uncredited)
Leo White
Barber (uncredited)
Clarence Wilson
Money Lender (uncredited)
Charles Rosher
Director of Photography
Harold D. Schuster
Editor
Hugo Riesenfeld
Original Music Composer
Hermann Sudermann
Author
William Fox
Producer
Karl Struss
Director of Photography
Rochus Gliese
Art Direction
Carl Mayer
Screenplay
Erno Rapee
Music
Carli Elinor
Music
R. H. Bassett
Music
Gordon Wiles
Art Department Manager
Edgar G. Ulmer
Assistant Art Director
Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Music
Charles Dudley
Makeup Artist
Maurice Baron
Orchestrator
Frank D. Williams
Special Effects
Max Munn Autrey
Still Photographer
Frank Powolny
Still Photographer
Alfred Metscher
Assistant Art Director
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Details.
Release DateNovember 4, 1927
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 34m
Box Office$1,636,000
Filming LocationsMexico
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This Movie Is About.
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (also known as Sunrise) is a 1927 American synchronized sound romantic drama directed by German director F. W. Murnau (in his American film debut) and starring George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, and Margaret Livingston. The film's plot follows a married farmer (O'Brien) who falls for a woman vacationing from the city (Livingston), who tries to convince him to murder his wife (Gaynor) in order to be with her. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the Movietone sound-on-film process. The story was adapted by Carl Mayer from the short story "The Excursion to Tilsit", from the 1917 collection with the same title by Hermann Sudermann.
Murnau chose to use the then new Fox Movietone sound-on-film system, making Sunrise one of the first feature films with a synchronized musical score and sound effects soundtrack. The film incorporated Charles Gounod's 1872 composition Funeral March of a Marionette, which inspired its use as the theme for the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1965). Frédéric Chopin's A minor prelude also features prominently in orchestral arrangement. In 2016, the Dallas Chamber Symphony commissioned an original film score for Sunrise from composer Joe Kraemer. The score premiered on October 18, 2016 at Moody Performance Hall with Richard McKay conducting. Selections from the score were recorded and released on Caldera Records.
Sunrise won the Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Picture at the 1st Academy Awards in 1929. Janet Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in the film (the award was also for her performances in 1927's 7th Heaven and 1928's Street Angel). The film's legacy has endured, and it is now widely considered a masterpiece and one of the greatest films ever made. Many have called it the greatest film of the silent era. In 1989, Sunrise was one of the first 25 films selected by the U.S. Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The Academy Film Archive preserved Sunrise in 2004. The 2007 update of the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest American films ranked it number 82, and the British Film Institute's 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll named it the fifth-best film in the history of motion pictures, while directors named it 22nd.
Although the original 35mm negative of the original American version of Sunrise was destroyed in the 1937 Fox vault fire, a new negative was created from a surviving print.