Sunrise - Starring Janet Gaynor and George O'Brien; with Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing, J. Farrell MacDonald and Ralph Sipperly. Considered a masterpiece and one of the greatest films ever made. Many have called it the greatest film of the silent era. Actress Janet Gaynor won 2 Best Actress Academy Awards at the first Academy Awards in 1929 for her role in the 1927 films “Seventh Heaven” and “Sunrise.”, and for her role in the 1928 film “Street Angel.” See the First ever Academy Awards in 1929 here: https://rumble.com/v43x3gh-the-1st-academy-awards-in-1929-honoring-the-films-of-1927-and-1928.html Bored with his wife (Janet Gaynor), their baby and the dull routine of farm life, a farmer (George O'Brien) falls under the spell of a flirtatious city girl (Margaret Livingston) who convinces him to drown his wife so they can escape together. When his wife becomes suspicious of his plan and runs away to the city, the farmer pursues her, slowly regaining her trust as the two rediscover their love for each other in this award-winning silent classic. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (also known as Sunrise) is a 1927 American synchronized sound romantic drama directed by German director F. W. Murnau (in his American film debut) and starring George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, and Margaret Livingston. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the Movietone sound-on-film process. The story was adapted by Carl Mayer from the short story "The Excursion to Tilsit", from the 1917 collection with the same title by Hermann Sudermann. Sunrise won the Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Picture at the 1st Academy Awards in 1929. Janet Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in the film (the award was also for her performances in 1927's 7th Heaven and 1928's Street Angel). The film's legacy has endured, and it is now widely considered a masterpiece and one of the greatest films ever made. Many have called it the greatest film of the silent era. In 1989, Sunrise was one of the 25 films selected by the U.S. Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The Academy Film Archive preserved Sunrise in 2004. The 2007 update of the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest American films ranked it number 82, and the British Film Institute's 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll named it the fifth-best film in the history of motion pictures, while directors named it 22nd. Although the original 35mm negative of the original American version of Sunrise was destroyed in the 1937 Fox vault fire, a new negative was created from a surviving print. Classic Clips Website https://classicclips.ca Classic Clips Store https://classicclips.store Classic Clips X (formerly Twitter) https://twitter.com/ClassicClipss Classic Clips Facebook https://facebook.com/classicclipsstore Classic Clips Instagram https://instagram.com/classicclipsstore