''In His Steps'' is a 1936 American
drama film directed by
Karl Brown and starring
Eric Linden,
Cecilia Parker and
Harry Beresford. It was distributed by the recently formed
Grand National Pictures. The film's sets were designed by the
art director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games.
It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Edward C. Jewell
Edward C. Jewell (1894–1963) was an American art director who worked on the sets of over a hundred and fifty film productions during his career. He worked for a variety of studios including Columbia Pictures in the 1930s and Producers Releasing ...
. It was based on the 1896 novel ''
In His Steps'' by
Charles Sheldon
Charles Monroe Sheldon (February 26, 1857 – February 24, 1946) was an American Congregationalist minister and a leader of the Social Gospel movement. His novel ''In His Steps'' introduced the principle "What would Jesus do?", which articu ...
, which had previously been adapted into the silent film ''
The Martyrdom of Philip Strong
''The Martyrdom of Philip Strong'' is a 1916 American drama silent film directed by Richard Ridgely and written by Everett McNeil, Francis Neilson and Charles Sheldon. The film stars Robert Conness, Mabel Trunnelle, Janet Dawley, Bigelow Cooper, ...
''.
[Goble p.422]
Cast
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Eric Linden as Tom Carver
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Cecilia Parker as Ruth Brewster
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Harry Beresford as Davidson
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Clara Blandick as Martha Adams
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Roger Imhof as Adams
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Olive Tell as Elaine Brewster
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Henry Kolker as Calvin Carver
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Charles Richman as Robert Brewster
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Robert Warwick
Robert Warwick (born Robert Taylor Bien, October 9, 1878 – June 6, 1964) was an American stage, film and television actor with over 200 film appearances. A matinee idol during the silent film era, he also prospered after the introduction ...
asJudge Grey
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Warner Richmond as Gavin
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Stanley Andrews as Broderick
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Donald Kirke
Donald Kirke (1901–1971) was an American stage, film and television actor.
Career
In the early 1920s, Kirke acted in stock theater, including the Gene Lewis-Olga Worth and the Lewis-Worth companies.
Kirke's Broadway credits include ''The Co ...
as Reynard
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Torben Meyer as Psychiatrist
References
Bibliography
* Fetrow, Alan G. . ''Sound films, 1927-1939: a United States Filmography''. McFarland, 1992.
* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
* Hanson, Patricia King . ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1931-1940, Volumes 1-3''. University of California Press, 1993.
External links
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1936 films
1936 drama films
American black-and-white films
American drama films
Films directed by Karl Brown
Grand National Films films
1930s English-language films
1930s American films
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