An American Tragedy (1931)

Directors

Josef von Sternberg

Cast

Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Frances Dee, Irving Pichel, Frederick Burton, Claire McDowell, Wallace Middleton, Lucille La Verne, Emmett Corrigan, Al Hart, Charles Middleton, Russ Powell, Arnold Korff, George Irving, Vivian Winston, Evelyn Pierce, Imboden Parrish, Arline Judge, Elizabeth Forrester, Claire Dodd

The story

Clyde Griffiths, a bellhop at a fancy hotel in Kansas City, is the neglected son of street evangelists. He is dating one of the hotel's maids, though he yearns for a place in society. One night, he and some friends are involved in a drunk-driving crash in which a little girl is killed.

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