An American Tragedy (film)

An American Tragedy
An American Tragedy
	1931 Lobby Card
Directed by	Josef von Sternberg
Screenplay by	Samuel Hoffenstein
Based on	An American Tragedy; by Theodore Dreiser
Produced by	Josef von Sternberg
Starring	Phillips Holmes; Sylvia Sidney; Frances Dee
Cinematography	Lee Garmes
Music by	John Leipold; Ralph Rainger
Production; company	Paramount Pictures
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	August 22, 1931;
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

An American Tragedy (1931) is an American pre-Code drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg. It was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on Theodore Dreiser's 1925 novel An American Tragedy and the 1926 play adaptation. These were based on the historic 1906 murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette at Big Moose Lake in upstate New York.^[1]

The novel would again be adapted in the 1951 Paramount release A Place in the Sun.

^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1931-1940 by the American Film Institute, c. 1993.