The Man Who Came Back (1931)

Directed by

Raoul Walsh

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 14m

Rating

4.3 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy man loses his fortune and his love due to his gambling addiction. He must find a way to win back his former fiancee and redeem himself.

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What happens

The Man Who Came Back is a 1931 American Pre-Code romantic 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. A Fox property for many years, it had been filmed before in the silent era in 1924 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 for the first two and F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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