Film

The First Legion

Retrospettiva: Douglas Sirk

USA · 1950 · 35 mm · Black and White · 86' · o.v. English

Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by The Louis B. Mayer Foundation and The Carl David Memorial Fund for Film Preservation.

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In a monastery, a father’s healing is interpreted as ’a true miracle’. An adaptation of Lavery’s play, which Sirk had planned to make in Germany and filmed in California, outside of the studios. "I think everything is about religion: it’s about the unknown things in man". (D. Sirk)


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Director

Douglas Sirk

Screenplay

Emmet Lavery

Cast

Barbara Rush, Charles Boyer, Leo G. Carroll, Lyle Bettger, William Demarest

Producer

Douglas Sirk, Rudolph Joseph

Cinematography

Robert De Grasse

Editing

Francis D. Lyon

Music

Hans Sommer

Production

United Artists/Sédif Pictures Corporation

Print

UCLA Film & Television Archive