Three Sinners

{{infobox film

| name = Three Sinners

| image = Three Sinners (1928) poster.jpg

| caption = 1928 theatrical poster

| producer = Adolph Zukor
Jesse L. Lasky
Rowland V. Lee

| writer = Rudolf Bernauer (play Das Zweite Leben aka The Second Life)
Rudolf Österreicher (play, with Bernauer)
Doris Anderson (adaptation)
Jean de Limur (adaptation)
Julian Johnson (intertitles)

| starring = Pola Negri
Olga Baclanova

| music =

| cinematography = Victor Milner

| editing = Robert Bassler

| distributor = Paramount Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1928|04|14}}

| runtime = 8 reels

| country = United States

| language = Silent
English intertitles

}}

Three Sinners (1928) is a silent film directed by Rowland V. Lee, starring Pola Negri, and co-starring Warner Baxter, Olga Baclanova, and Paul Lukas.

The film was produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures, and is based on a play Das Zweite Leben (or The Second Life) by Rudolf Bernauer and Rudolf Österreicher. Director Lee also served as executive producer. A sound remake starring Ruth Chatterton was titled Once a Lady (1931).

Cast

Pola Negri – Baroness Gerda Wallentin
Warner Baxter – James Harris
Olga Baclanova – Baroness Hilda Brings
Paul Lukas – Count Dietrich Wallentin
Anders Randolf – Count Hellemuth Wallentin (billed as Anders Randolph)
Tullio Carminati – Roul Stanislav
Anton Vaverka – Valet to Dieetrich
Ivy Harris – Countess Lilli
William von Hardenburg – Prince von Scherson
Robert Klein – Count Bogumi Sdarschinsky
Irving Bacon – ?
Delmer Daves – ?

Preservation status

Three Sinners is now considered a lost film.American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films, 1921–30 c.1971 by The American Film Institute[http://www.silentsaregolden.com/arneparamountpictures.html Three Sinners at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Paramount Pictures 1928][http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.9834/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:Three Sinners]

Production still

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Warner Baxter and Pola Negri

References

External links

[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019470/ Three Sinners at IMDB]
[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/T/ThreeSinners1928.html Three Sinners at SilentEra]
[http://allmovie.com/work/three-sinners-113600 Three Sinners at AllMovie]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20121019003729/http://www.movieposterdb.com/poster/2b28b96b poster of Three Sinners](Wayback)