On this day in movie history - Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

a.k.a. Sunrise,

directed by F.W. Murnau,

written by Carl Mayer, Hermann Sudermann, Katherine Hilliker and H.H. Caldwell,

based on the short story The Excursion to Tilsit by Hermann Sudermann,

was released in the United States on November 4, 1927.

Music by R.H. Bassett, Carli Elinor, Erno Rapee, Hugo Riesenfeld, Willy Schmidt-Gentner.

Funeral March of a Marionette by Charles Gounod.

A minor prelude by Frédéric Chopin.

Cast:

George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing, J. Farrell MacDonald, Ralph Sipperly, Jane Winton, Arthur Housman, Eddie Boland, Herman Bing, Sidney Bracey, Gino Corrado, Vondell Darr, Sally Eilers, Gibson Gowland, Fletcher Henderson, Leon Janney, Thomas Jefferson, Bob Kortman, F.W. Murnau, Barry Norton, Robert Parrish, Sally Phipps, Tempe Pigott, Harry Semels, Phillips Smalley, Leo White, Clarence Wilson.