Seven Faces

Seven Faces
Directed byBerthold Viertel
Lester Lonergan (dialogue director)
Screenplay byDana Burnet
Based onoriginal story
by Richard Connell
Produced byWilliam Fox (president)
George E. Middleton (associate producer)
StarringPaul Muni
Marguerite Churchill
CinematographyJoseph H. August
Al Brick
Edited byEdwin Robbins
Production
company
Distributed byFox Film Corporation
Release dates
  • November 15, 1929 (1929-11-15) (New York City)
  • December 1, 1929 (1929-12-01)
Running time
78 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Seven Faces is a 1929 American pre-Code drama film with fantasy elements that was released by Fox Film Corporation in the Fox Movietone sound-on-film system on December 1, 1929.[1][2] Based upon the piece of short fiction "A Friend of Napoleon" which was published in the June 30, 1923, issue of The Saturday Evening Post magazine by popular writer Richard Connell (whose best known work, The Most Dangerous Game, was filmed three years later), it was directed by Berthold Viertel and stars Paul Muni in his second screen appearance.[3][4][5] Seven Faces is a lost film, with no excerpts from its footage known to exist.[citation needed]