The Street of Sin

The successor to "The Way of All Flesh"---and a worthy one! Jannings' third American-made picture -- and twice as good as the first!

"Basher Bill," a retired prizefighter turned criminal, pretends to reform by joining a Salvation Army shelter in London run by a pious wraith named Elizabeth. Attracted to Elizabeth (although he is engaged to a street girl named Annie), Bill confesses to a bank robbery, has a spiritual revelation, and decides to go straight. His cast-off sweetheart reports him to the police; then, contrite, she warns Bill of the impending danger. Bill is captured immediately, but he escapes and sacrifices his life to save Elizabeth and the Salvation Army nursery when the rest of the gang use them as a human barricade against the police.

• Release date
• May 26, 1928
• Runtime
• 70 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Mauritz Stiller

Cast

Emil Jannings Basher Bill Fay Wray Elizabeth Olga Baclanova Annie

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Ernest W. Johnson Mr. Smith

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George Kotsonaros Iron Mike John Gough Crony of Basher Bill

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Johnnie Morris Crony of Basher Bill

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John Burdette Publican