Four Sons (1940 film)
1940 film by Archie Mayo
- June 14, 1940 (1940-06-14)
Running time
Four Sons is a 1940 war film directed by Archie Mayo.[1] It stars Don Ameche and Eugenie Leontovich.[2] It is a remake of the 1928 film of the same name.[3]
The film follows the lives of four Czecho-German brothers following the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. Two of them choose to serve Nazi Germany, another chooses to fight in support of the Czech lands, and the fourth emigrates to the United States.
Plot
When the Germans invade Czechoslovakia in 1939, the four sons of a Czecho-German family follow different paths: Czech patriot, Nazi supporter, artist in America, and heroic German soldier.
Cast
- Don Ameche as Chris Bern
- [[Eugenie Leontovich[[ as Frau Bern
- Mary Beth Hughes as Anna
- Alan Curtis as Karl Bern
- George Ernest as Fritz Bern
- Robert Lowery as Joseph
- Lionel Royce as Max Sturm
- Sig Ruman as Newmann (as Sig Rumann)
- Ludwig Stössel as Pastor
- Christian Rub as Kapek
- Torben Meyer as Gustav
References
External links
- Four Sons at IMDb
- Four Sons at the TCM Movie Database
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Films directed by Archie Mayo
- Money Talks (1926)
- Christine of the Big Tops (1926)
- Unknown Treasures (1926)
- Johnny Get Your Hair Cut (1927)
- Dearie (1927)
- Slightly Used (1927)
- The College Widow (1927)
- Quarantined Rivals (1927)
- State Street Sadie (1928)
- Beware of Married Men (1928)
- The Crimson City (1928)
- On Trial (1928)
- My Man (1928)
- Sonny Boy (1929)
- Is Everybody Happy? (1929)
- The Sap (1929)
- The Sacred Flame (1929)
- Wide Open (1930)
- Courage (1930)
- Oh Sailor Behave (1930)
- The Doorway to Hell (1930)
- Illicit (1931)
- Svengali (1931)
- Bought (1931)
- Under Eighteen (1931)
- The Expert (1932)
- Night After Night (1932)
- Two Against the World (1932)
- Street of Women (1932)
- The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)
- The Mayor of Hell (1933)
- Ever in My Heart (1933)
- Convention City (1933)
- Gambling Lady (1934)
- The Man with Two Faces (1934)
- Desirable (1934)
- Give Me Your Heart (1934)
- Bordertown (1935)
- Go into Your Dance (1935)
- The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935)
- The Petrified Forest (1936)
- I Married a Doctor (1936)
- Black Legion (1937)
- It's Love I'm After (1937)
- The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)
- Youth Takes a Fling (1938)
- They Shall Have Music (1939)
- The House Across the Bay (1940)
- Four Sons (1940)
- The Great American Broadcast (1941)
- Charley's Aunt (1941)
- Confirm or Deny (1941)
- Moontide (1942)
- Orchestra Wives (1942)
- Crash Dive (1943)
- Sweet and Low-Down (1944)
- A Night in Casablanca (1946)
- Angel on My Shoulder (1946)
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