--- title: 'An American Tragedy (1931)' type: 'film' director: 'Josef von Sternberg' released: '1931-01-01' runtime_minutes: 96 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/an-american-tragedy-1931' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021607/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # An American Tragedy (1931) 1931 · 96 min · Drama · United States ## Synopsis An American Tragedy is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg and produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is based on Theodore Dreiser's 1925 novel An American Tragedy and its 1926 stage adaptation, which were inspired by the historic 1906 murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette at Big Moose Lake in upstate New York. Dreiser's novel would again be adapted by Paramount as the 1951 film A Place in the Sun. ## Credits - **Director:** [Josef von Sternberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/josef-von-sternberg) - **Screenplay:** [Samuel Hoffenstein](https://cinepixo.com/people/samuel-hoffenstein) - **Original Music Composer:** [John Leipold](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-leipold) - **Producer:** [Adolph Zukor](https://cinepixo.com/people/adolph-zukor), [Jesse Louis Lasky](https://cinepixo.com/people/jesse-louis-lasky) - **Director of Photography:** [Lee Garmes](https://cinepixo.com/people/lee-garmes) ## Cast - [George Irving](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-irving) - [Frederick Burton](https://cinepixo.com/people/frederick-burton) - [Charles Middleton](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-middleton) - [Irving Pichel](https://cinepixo.com/people/irving-pichel) - [Claire McDowell](https://cinepixo.com/people/claire-mcdowell) - [Arnold Korff](https://cinepixo.com/people/arnold-korff) - [Frances Dee](https://cinepixo.com/people/frances-dee) - [Phillips Holmes](https://cinepixo.com/people/phillips-holmes) - [Arline Judge](https://cinepixo.com/people/arline-judge) - [Sylvia Sidney](https://cinepixo.com/people/sylvia-sidney) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/an-american-tragedy-1931 Film facts: Wikidata (Q3549812); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.