Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

Movie Details

Original Title Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Original Language EN

Revenue $1,636,000

Status Released

Popularity 1.6

Cast

George O'Brien

The Man (Anses)

Popularity: 0.6

Janet Gaynor

The Wife (Indre)

Popularity: 1.4

Margaret Livingston

The Woman from the City

Popularity: 1.0

Bodil Rosing

The Maid

Popularity: 0.5

J. Farrell MacDonald

The Photographer

Popularity: 7.1

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Ralph Sipperly

The Barber

Popularity: 0.2

Jane Winton

The Manicure Girl

Popularity: 0.6

Arthur Housman

The Obtrusive Gentleman

Popularity: 0.6

Eddie Boland

The Obliging Gentleman

Popularity: 0.1

Herman Bing

Streetcar Conductor (uncredited)

Popularity: 2.7

Sidney Bracey

Dance Hall Manager (uncredited)

Popularity: 1.0

Gino Corrado

Manager of Hair Salon (uncredited)

Popularity: 2.4

Key Crew

Director F. W. Murnau

Producer William Fox

Editor Harold D. Schuster

Screenplay Carl Mayer

Music R. H. Bassett, Carli Elinor, Erno Rapee

Production

Fox Film Corporation

Videos & Trailers

Sunrise (1927) Original surviving trailer

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Keywords

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Reviews from TMDB

Andres Gomez 7/10

May 17, 2014

Interesting but much more for how the movies were done back in 1927 and how the relationships between men and women were understood.

CinemaSerf 7/10

Mar 27, 2022

Wow! Friedrich Murnau really did pull out all of the stops for this gorgeously complex and beautiful story - that is entirely based on human character flaws that ordinarily might make one squirm... None of the characters actually have names, but George O'Brien is contentedly married to Janet Gaynor, ... Read more