Four Sons

Four Sons
Original 1928 film poster
Directed by	John Ford
Written by	Philip Klein
Based on	"Grandmother Bernle Learns Her Letters" by I. A. R. Wylie
Produced by	John Ford William Fox
Starring	Margaret Mann James Hall Charles Morton Ralph Bushman George Meeker
Cinematography	Charles G. Clarke George Schneiderman
Edited by	Margaret Clancey
Distributed by	Fox Film Corporation
Release date	February 13, 1928 (1928-02-13) (United States) [1]
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Sound (Synchronized) (English Intertitles)
Box office	$1.5 million[2]

Four Sons is a 1928 American synchronized sound drama film directed and produced by John Ford and written for the screen by Philip Klein from a story by I. A. R. Wylie first published in the Saturday Evening Post as "Grandmother Bernle Learns Her Letters" (1926). While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-film movietone process.

It is one of only a handful of survivors out of the more than 50 films Ford directed between 1917 and 1928. It starred Margaret Mann, James Hall, and Charles Morton. The film is also notable for the presence of the young John Wayne in an uncredited role as an officer. The film's soundtrack was recorded using the Movietone sound-on-film system but was also released in the sound-on-disc format.

A family is torn apart by the advent of World War I. It was remade in 1940 with the same title, starring Don Ameche and Eugenie Leontovich, and directed by Archie Mayo, although the war was updated to World War II.