Three Sinners

{{short description|1928 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2020}} {{infobox film | name = Three Sinners | image = Three Sinners (1928) poster.jpg | caption = Theatrical release three-sheet poster | director = Rowland V. Lee | producer = Adolph Zukor Jesse L. Lasky Rowland V. Lee | writer = Doris Anderson (adaptation) Jean de Limur (adaptation) Julian Johnson (intertitles) | based_on = {{based on|''Das Zweite Leben'' 1927 play|Rudolf Bernauer and Rudolf Österreicher}} | starring = Pola Negri Olga Baclanova | music = | cinematography = Victor Milner | editing = Robert Bassler | distributor = Paramount Pictures | released = {{Film date|1928|04|14}} | runtime = 8 reels | country = United States | language = Silent English intertitles }}

'''''Three Sinners''''' is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Rowland V. Lee, starring Pola Negri, and co-starring Warner Baxter, Olga Baclanova, and Paul Lukas.

The film was produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures, and is based on a play ''Das Zweite Leben'' (or ''The Second Life'') by Rudolf Bernauer and Rudolf Österreicher. Director Lee also served as executive producer. A sound remake starring Ruth Chatterton was titled ''Once a Lady'' (1931).

==Cast== {{cast listing| *Pola Negri as Baroness Gerda Wallentin *Warner Baxter as James Harris *Olga Baclanova as Baroness Hilda Brings *Paul Lukas as Count Dietrich Wallentin *Anders Randolph as Count Hellemuth Wallentin *Tullio Carminati as Roul Stanislav *Anton Vaverka as Valet to Dieetrich *Ivy Harris as Countess Lilli *William von Hardenburg as Prince von Scherson *Robert Klein as Count Bogumi Sdarschinsky *Irving Bacon *Delmer Daves }}

==Preservation== With no holdings located in archives, ''Three Sinners'' is now considered a lost film.<ref>''American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films, 1921–30'' c.1971 by The American Film Institute</ref><ref>[http://www.silentsaregolden.com/arneparamountpictures.html ''Three Sinners'' at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: ''Paramount Pictures'' 1928]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date= |others= |title=The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Three Sinners |url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.9834/default.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240611231938/http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.9834/default.html |archive-date=2024-06-11 |access-date=2025-08-24 |website=memory.loc.gov}}</ref>

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