49-Sunrise -Director: F.W. Murnau - Cast: Janet Gaynor,George O'Brien and Margaret Livingstone.

"I suppose I must have a particular weakness for silent films from the second half of the twenties, before the cinema was taken over by sound. At that time, the cinema was in the process of creating its own language. There was Murnau and The Last Laugh, with Jannings, a film told solely in images with a fantastic suppleness; then his Faust, and finally his masterpiece, Sunrise. Three astonishing works that tell us that Murnau, at the same time as Stroheim in Hollywood, was well on the way to creating a magnificently original and distinct language. I have many favourites among the German films of this period."
-Ingmar Bergman-


"He was only 43 when he died,and in 'Sunrise' he had already married a German narrative fatalism to the Naturalism of actors like Janet Gaynor,George O'Brien, and Margaret Livingstone,who is poignant the vamp.Above all,he had found a crucial American subject,the ordinary person's dream of something more than fate has allowed,and the dread that goes with the dream.For 'Sunrise' is a key step toward film noir as well as the woman's picture.It is the city and the country,jazz futures and the old frontier.Murnau might have done more for American film than Lang or Lubitsch."
-David Thomson-(The New Biographical dictionary of Film)