San Francisco International Film Festival 20 April - 04 May 2006

USA, 1939, 106 min

Shown in 1965

CREDITS

dir

Lewis Milestone

prod

Lewis Milestone

scr

Eugene Solow

cam

Norbert Brodine

editor

Bert Jordan

mus

Aaron Copland

cast

Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Lon Chaney Jr., Charles Bickford, Roman Bohmen, Bob Steele, Noah Beery Jr., Oscar O’Shea

OTHER

prod co

Hal Roach Studios Inc.

COMMENTS

Part of the American Director series with clips and personal appearance by Lewis Milestone.

FACTOID #80

The globetrotting thespian Anthony Quinn attended the 1969 San Francisco International Film Festival in support of the Opening Night film The Secret of Santa Vittoria, in which he played the half-drunk mayor of an Italian hamlet, protecting his town’s wine collection from German soldiers.