Seven Faces | |
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Directed by | Berthold Viertel Lester Lonergan (dialogue director) |
Screenplay by | Dana Burnet |
Based on | original story by Richard Connell |
Produced by | William Fox (president) George E. Middleton (associate producer) |
Starring | Paul Muni Marguerite Churchill |
Cinematography | Joseph H. August Al Brick |
Edited by | Edwin Robbins |
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Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
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Running time | 78 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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]