THE SINS OF THE CHILDREN (1930) Louis Mann, Robert Montgomery & Elliot Nugent | Drama, Romance | B&W

The Sins of the Children, also known as Father's Day and The Richest Man in the World, is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film, which was produced and directed by Sam Wood and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

SYNOPSIS
Adolf Wagenkampf, a German immigrant barber on the verge of becoming rich, takes his sickly son away on a two-year stay in a drier climate. The man's partner deems him a failure, but he learns that his family is more important than finance.

A German immigrant to a small American town is a barber with four children. He has saved enough money to invest in a savings-and-loan company with a friend. Unfortunately, one of his sons has been stricken with tuberculosis, and the investment money goes to pay for the son's treatment in Arizona. Twenty years later, the wastrel son of the now-rich man who was to have been his partner, falls in love with the barber's daughter.

CAST & CREW
Louis Mann as Adolf Wagenkampf
Robert Montgomery as Nick Higginson
Elliott Nugent as Johann Wagenkampf
Leila Hyams as Alma Wagenkampf
Clara Blandick as Martha Wagenkampf
Mary Doran as Laura
Ralph Bushman as Ludwig Wagenkampf
Robert McWade as Joe Higginson
Dell Henderson as Ted Baldwin
Henry Armetta as Tony
Jane Reid as Katherine Wagenkampf Taylor
James Donlan as Bide Taylor
Jeane Wood as Muriel Stokes
Lee Kohlmar as Dr Heinrich Schmidt

Directed by Sam Wood
Produced by Sam Wood
Cinematography Henry Sharp
Edited by Frank Sullivan
Distributed by MGM
Release date: June 28, 1930 (U.S.)
Running time: 87 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English