Winterset

Based On the book by Maxwell Anderson

Winterset is a 1936 American crime film directed by Alfred Santell, based on the 1935 play of the same name by Maxwell Anderson, in a loose dramatization of the Sacco and Vanzetti trial and execution in 1928. The script retains elements of the blank verse poetic meter on which Anderson based his 1935 Winterset Broadway theater production. Actor Burgess Meredith made his credited film debut as the avenging son Mio Romagna. The film greatly changes the ending of the play, in which the lovers Mio and Miriamne are shot to death by gangsters.

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Release date:

1936

Director:

Alfred Santell

Cast:

Burgess Meredith, Margo, Eduardo Ciannelli, John Carradine, Mischa Auer

Genre:

Crime, Drama

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Year page:

1936 in adaptations