7th Heaven
- 1927
- 1h 50m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
4.2K
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A street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.A street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.A street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.
- Won 3 Oscars
- 9 wins & 2 nominations total
Henry Armetta
- Extra
- (uncredited)
Lewis Borzage Sr.
- Streetlamp Lighter
- (uncredited)
Dolly Borzage
- Street Girl
- (uncredited)
Mary Borzage
- Bullet Factory Worker
- (uncredited)
Sue Borzage
- Street Girl
- (uncredited)
Italia Frandi
- Extra
- (uncredited)
Venezia Frandi
- Extra
- (uncredited)
Frankie Genardi
- Little Boy
- (uncredited)
Lois Hardwick
- Extra
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaFor Chico and Diane's dramatic ascent to the apartment loft - the titular "7th Heaven" - a three-story elevator scaffold was constructed that would be able to follow the pair from the ground level to the apartment door on the top floor. The camera dollies forward onto an elevator platform and then is raised (via a system of ropes and pulleys) through the vertical set, viewing Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell as they climb the long spiral staircase, as though the viewer is passing through each floor on the ascent. Action is staged with background actors on various floors to give the impression that the set is a lived-in building, and a lighting gag (where Farrell lights a match in a darkened alcove) is used to mask a cut in order to give the audience the experience of a continuous, flowing camera movement up to the sky.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Precious Images (1986)
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remarkable film
This could have been something awful. It's high schmaltz, really fever-pitched melodrama, and the plot relies on a huge number of coincidences. But it all works beautifully, through a perfect combination of acting, directing, and photography, not to mention the incredible lighting and set design. This is one of the great silent movies, and one of the great screen romances. Janet Gaynor had quite a year in 1927, turning in fantastic performances in this, as well as F. W. Murnau's Sunrise. 10/10
A year later, Buster Keaton in The Cameraman would do a brilliant spoof of the famous staircase crane shot from Seventh Heaven.
A year later, Buster Keaton in The Cameraman would do a brilliant spoof of the famous staircase crane shot from Seventh Heaven.
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- plaidpotato
- Jul 10, 2003
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- $1,300,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
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