''The Man Who Came Back'' is a 1931 American
Pre-Code drama film directed by
Raoul Walsh, starring
Janet Gaynor and
Charles Farrell. The movie was adapted to screen by Edwin J. Burke from the play by
Jules Eckert Goodman
Jules Eckert Goodman (November 2, 1876 – July 10, 1962) was an American playwright and author. He was best known for his plays ''The Man Who Came Back'' (1916), '' The Silent Voice'' (1914), ''Chains'' (1923), and a series of plays featuring ...
.
A Fox property for many years, it had been filmed before in the
silent era in
1924
Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
* January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hold ...
with George O'Brien and Dorothy Mackaill in the leads. A Spanish-language version called ''
Road of Hell'' was made in the same year.
Gaynor and Farrell made almost a dozen films together, including Frank Borzage's classics ''
Seventh Heaven'' (1927), ''
Street Angel'' (1928), and ''
Lucky Star'' (1929); Gaynor won the first
Academy Award for Best Actress
The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role in a film released that year ...
for the first two and F. W. Murnau's ''
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans'' (1927).
Cast
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Janet Gaynor as Angie Randolph
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Charles Farrell as Stephen Randolph
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Kenneth MacKenna as Captain Trevelyan
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William Holden as Thomas Randolph
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Mary Forbes as Mrs. Gaynes
*Ullrich Haupt as Charles Reisling
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William Worthington as Captain Gallon
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Peter Gawthorne as Griggs
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Leslie Fenton as Baron le Duc
References
External links
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1931 films
Films directed by Raoul Walsh
1931 drama films
American drama films
American films based on plays
American black-and-white films
Fox Film films
1930s English-language films
1930s American films
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