Two Sinners

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| name = Two Sinners

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| director = Arthur Lubin

| producer = Trem Carr

| writer = Jefferson Parker

| based_on = {{based on|Two Black Sheep|Warwick Deeping}}

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| music =

| cinematography = Harry Neumann

| editing = Jack Ogilvie

| studio = Trem Carr Productions

| distributor = Republic Pictures

| released = {{film date|1935|09|12}}

| runtime = 72 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

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Two Sinners is a 1935 film directed by Arthur Lubin.{{Cite news|author=Schallert, E.|title=Paramount preparing "rip van winkle" as W. C. fields starring picture.|date=Sep 19, 1935|work=Los Angeles Times|id={{ProQuest|163378429}}}}{{Cite magazine|magazine=Diabolique Magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|url=https://diaboliquemagazine.com/the-cinema-of-arthur-lubin/|date=14 September 2019|title=The Cinema of Arthur Lubin}}

Plot

In London, Henry Vane gets out of prison after serving fifteen years for murder and tries to rebuild his life.

Cast

Otto Kruger as Henry Vane
Martha Sleeper as Elsie Summerstone
Minna Gombell as Claudine Pym
Ferdinand Munier as Monte Alabaster
Cora Sue Collins as Sally Pym
Margaret Seddon as Mrs. Summerstone
Harrington Reynolds as Major Ritchie
Fred Walton as Shepley
Olaf Hytten as French judge
Montague Shaw as Humphrey Grylls
William P. Carleton as Heggie
Harold Entwistle as Pateman

Production

The working title of Two Sinners was Two Black Sheep, the title of the 1933 Warwick Deeping novel on which it was based.{{Cite news|title=Photo-Drama|work=Lewiston Daily Sun|page=2|date=28 July 2014}} The novel had become a best seller.{{Cite news|title=Best Sellers Here and Elsewhere|date=Sep 25, 1933|work=New York Times|page=13}} In May 1935, Republic announced they would make a film of the novel.{{Cite news|title=46 FILMS SCHEDULED BY REPUBLIC PICTURES|date=May 14, 1935|work=New York Times|page=17}} The same month, Arthur Lubin signed a contract with Republic for a year to make six pictures starting with the book Two Black Sheep that became the film Two Sinners.{{Cite news|author=Schallert, E.|title=Negotiations started for filming of "petrified forest" with leslie howard.|date=May 28, 1935|work=Los Angeles Times|id={{ProQuest|163303169}}}}

Otto Kruger was cast in July 1935.{{cite news|title=SCREEN NOTES|work=New York Times|date=17 July 1935|page=22}}

Release

Two Sinners was released as a second feature in some U.S. theaters alongside the Kay Francis vehicle The Goose and the Gander.

The film impressed the holders of the rights to a W.W. Jacobs story which persuaded them to sell it to Lubin years later to make Footsteps in the Fog.{{Cite news|author=Schallert, E.|title=Super oscar winners likely to join forces; latin gains star rating|date=Aug 15, 1949|work=Los Angeles Times|id={{ProQuest|166004527}}}}

References

External links

{{IMDb title|0027146}}
{{TCMDb title|94255}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20171104171512/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b9438f4 Two Sinners] at BFI
[https://archive.org/details/variety119-1935–09/page/n159 Review of film] at Variety

Category:1935 films

Category:1930s romantic comedy-drama films

Category:American black-and-white films

Category:1930s English-language films

Category:Monogram Pictures films

Category:Films based on British novels

Category:Films set in France

Category:Films set in London

Category:Films directed by Arthur Lubin

Category:American romantic comedy-drama films

Category:1935 romantic comedy films

Category:1935 romantic drama films

Category:1930s American films

Category:English-language romantic comedy-drama films