We Americans | |
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Directed by | Edward Sloman |
Written by | Alfred A. Cohn Edward Sloman |
Based on | We Americans by Milton Herbert Gropper and Max Siegel |
Produced by | Carl Laemmle Jr. |
Starring | George Sidney Patsy Ruth Miller George J. Lewis |
Cinematography | Jackson Rose |
Edited by | Robert Jahns |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
We Americans is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Edward Sloman and starring George Sidney, Patsy Ruth Miller, and George J. Lewis. [1] [2] An extremely slender young Andy Devine plays an early small role as Pat O'Dougal.
Two young couples try to cross the mixed ethnic divide in America, something which is only resolved when World War I reveals the truth of American society's melting pot.
Producer Carl Laemmle Jr. purchased the film rights to the play We Americans in support of the efforts of Will H. Hays, head of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, to further the more rapid Americanization of immigrants within the United States. [3] Hays organized a group of experts to advise director Sloman on the film. [3] The initial outline for the film had immigrants from Russia settling in the United States but maintaining their native language and customs, while their children became assimilated through attended American high school, with the resulting family conflict.
With no prints of We Americans located in any film archives, [4] it is a lost film.
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