Three Sinners Explained

Three Sinners
Director:	Rowland V. Lee
Producer:	Adolph Zukor Jesse L. Lasky Rowland V. Lee
Starring:	Pola Negri Olga Baclanova
Cinematography:	Victor Milner
Editing:	Robert Bassler
Distributor:	Paramount Pictures
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.^{[1] [2] [3]}

See also

• List of lost films

Production still

Warner Baxter and Pola Negri

External links

• Three Sinners at IMDB
• Three Sinners at SilentEra
• Three Sinners at AllMovie
• poster of Three Sinners(Wayback)

Notes and References

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