Film · Drama
The Street of Sin (1928)
The successor to "The Way of All Flesh"---and a worthy one! Jannings' third American-made picture -- and twice as good as the first!
"Basher Bill," a retired prizefighter turned criminal, pretends to reform by joining a Salvation Army shelter in London run by a pious wraith named Elizabeth. Attracted to Elizabeth (although he is engaged to a street girl named Annie), Bill confesses to a bank robbery, has a spiritual revelation, and decides to go straight. His cast-off sweetheart reports him to the police; then, contrite, she warns Bill of the impending danger. Bill is captured immediately, but he escapes and sacrifices his life to save Elizabeth and the Salvation Army nursery when the rest of the gang use them as a human barricade against the police.
- Director
- Mauritz Stiller, Ludwig Berger, Lothar Mendes
- Writers
- Julian Johnson, Chandler Sprague, Josef von Sternberg
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- May 26, 1928
The Street of Sin was released on May 26, 1928.
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The Street of Sin cast
Emil JanningsBasher Bill
Fay WrayElizabeth
Olga BaclanovaAnnie- Ernest W. JohnsonMr. Smith
- George KotsonarosIron Mike
John GoughCrony of Basher Bill- Johnnie MorrisCrony of Basher Bill
- John BurdettePublican
- Douglas Haig
- Kid BroadMug (uncredited)
- Jack HerrickMug (uncredited)
- Joseph HerrickMug (uncredited)
- James KilgannonMug (uncredited)
