Remembrance Wall

Title: The Street of Sin

Date: 1928

Distributor: Paramount Famous Lasky Corp.

Director: Mauritz Stiller

Cast: Emil Jannings, Fay Wray, Olga Baclanova, Ernest W. Johnson, George Kotsonaros, John Gough, Johnnie Morris, John Burdette.

Summary: “Basher Bill,” a former prizefighter turned burglar, lives with his fiancee Annie. He meets Elizabeth, who takes care of abandoned children in the Salvation Army shelter. Touched by her goodness, Bill confesses to Elizabeth and decides to reform. Jealous, Annie gives him up to the police. He is shot trying to protect Elizabeth and the children when the gang uses them as a human shield against the police. As he dies, he tells Annie to save her soul by joining the Salvation Army.

Notes: The film was completed by Ludwig Berger after Mauritz Stiller returned to Sweden in November 1927, where he died shortly thereafter. Stiller was one of many foreign filmmakers who came to Hollywood and found it difficult to adjust to the Hollywood studio system.