The Man Who Came Back is a 1931 American Pre-Code 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.[2]
The Man Who Came Back | |
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Directed by | Raoul Walsh |
Written by | Jules Eckert Goodman (play) Edwin J. Burke |
Based on | The Man Who Came Back (1912) by John Fleming Wilson |
Starring | Janet Gaynor Charles Farrell |
Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
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Running time | 74 min. |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $1.4 million[1] |
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).
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