Rent Broken Lullaby (1932)
3.8 of 5 from 50 ratings
1h 16min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Musician Paul Renard (Phillips Holmes) is haunted by the memory of Walter (Tom Douglas), a German soldier he killed during the First World War. He travels to Walter's home town and, passing himself off as a friend of the deceased, is taken in by his grieving family. But when he finds himself falling in love with Elsa (Nancy Carroll), Walter's fiancée, he becomes worried that the truth will emerge...
- Actors:
- Lionel Barrymore, Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, Louise Carter, Lucien Littlefield, Tom Douglas, Zasu Pitts, Frank Sheridan, George Bickel, Emma Dunn, Reinhold Pasch, Rod McLennan, George Davis, Robert Dudley, Ed Eberle, Lillian Elliott, Henry Fifer, Julia Swayne Gordon, George Irving, Kate MacKenna
- Directors:
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Producers:
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Writers:
- Maurice Rostand, Reginald Berkeley, Samson Raphaelson, Ernest Vajda
- Aka:
- The Man I Killed / The Fifth Commandment
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 27/03/2023
- Run Time:
- 77 minutes
- Languages:
- English Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio commentary with author and film historian Joseph McBride (2021)
- The Films of Ernst Lubitsch (2001): archival audio recording of a presentation by Scott Eyman, author of Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise, presented as part the British Film Institute's 2001 Lubitsch retrospective at the National Film Theatre, London
- The Men I Killed (2023, 14 mins): video essay on Broken Lullaby and François Ozon's 2016 film Frantz, comparing their different cinematic approaches to adapting Maurice Rostand's 1930 play, L'Homme que j'ai tue, and its 1931 English-language translation, 'The Man I Killed', by Reginald Berkeley
- Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials
- UK premiere on Blu-ray
