''Two Sinners'' is a 1935 film directed by

Arthur Lubin Arthur Lubin (July 25, 1898 – May 11, 1995) was an American film director and producer who directed several ''Abbott & Costello'' films, ''Phantom of the Opera'' (1943), the ''Francis the Talking Mule'' series and created the talking-horse TV se ...

Plot

In London, Henry Vane gets out of prison after serving fifteen years for murder and tries to rebuild his life.

Cast

Otto Kruger Otto Kruger (September 6, 1885 – September 6, 1974) was an American actor, originally a Broadway matinee idol, who established a niche as a charming villain in films, such as Hitchcock's ''Saboteur''. He also appeared in CBS's ''Perry Mason'' a ...

as Henry Vane *

Martha Sleeper Martha Sleeper (June 24, 1910 – March 25, 1983) was a film actress of the 1920s–1930s and, later, a Broadway stage actress. She studied dancing for five years with Russian ballet master, Louis H. Chalif, at his New York dancing studio. ...

as Elsie Summerstone *

Minna Gombell Minna Marie Gombell (''née'' Gombel; May 28, 1892 – April 14, 1973) was an American stage and film actress. Early years She was born Minna Marie Gombel in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of William and Emma M. Debring Gombel. Her father ...

as Claudine Pym *Ferdinand Munier as Monte Alabaster *

Cora Sue Collins Cora Susan Collins (born April 19, 1927) is an American former child actress who appeared in numerous films during the Golden Years of Hollywood. Early life and career Cora Susan Collins was born on April 19, 1927, in Beckley, West Virginia. ...

as Sally Pym *

Margaret Seddon Margaret Seddon (November 18, 1872 – April 17, 1968) was an American stage and film actress. Biography She appeared in more than 100 films between 1915 and 1951. Her most memorable role was perhaps as one of The Pixilated Sisters, a come ...

as Mrs. Summerstone *

Harrington Reynolds Harrington Reynolds was an English actor who appeared on stage and in a number of movies. He was best known for ''Old English Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and ...

as Major Ritchie *Fred Walton as Shepley *Olaf Hytten as French judge *Montague Shaw as Humphrey Grylls *William P. Carleton as Heggie *Harold Entwistle as Pateman

Production

The working title of ''Two Sinners'' was ''

Two Black Sheep ''Two Black Sheep'' is a 1933 novel by the British writer Warwick Deeping. Like another novel ''Exiles'' that Deeping wrote three years earlier, it is set in contemporary Italy and shows some admiration for the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini ...

'', the title of the 1933

Warwick Deeping George Warwick Deeping (28 May 1877 – 20 April 1950) was an English novelist and short story writer, whose best-known novel was '' Sorrell and Son'' (1925). Life Born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, into a family of physicians, Warwick Deeping ...

novel on which it was based. The novel had become a best seller. In May 1935, Republic announced they would make a film of the novel. The same month, Arthur Lubin signed a contract with Republic for a year to make six pictures starting with the book ''Two Black Sheep'' that became the film ''Two Sinners''. Otto Kruger was cast in July 1935.

Release

''Two Sinners'' was released as a second feature in some U.S. theaters alongside the

Kay Francis Kay Francis (born Katharine Edwina Gibbs; January 13, 1905 – August 26, 1968) was an American stage and film actress. After a brief period on Broadway in the late 1920s, she moved to film and achieved her greatest success between 1930 an ...

vehicle ''The Goose and the Gander''. The film impressed the holders of the rights to a W.W. Jacobs story which persuaded them to sell it to Lubin years later to make ''

Footsteps in the Fog ''Footsteps in the Fog'' is a 1955 British Technicolor film noir crime film starring Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons, with a screenplay co-written by Lenore Coffee and Dorothy Davenport, and released by Columbia Pictures. The film is based on ...

''.

References

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