Academy Awards, USA 1929
| Won Oscar | Best Actress in a Leading Role Janet Gaynor For Street Angel and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans |
| Best Director, Dramatic Picture Frank Borzage | |
| Best Writing, Adaptation Benjamin Glazer | |
| Nominated Oscar | Best Picture, Production |
| Best Art Direction Harry Oliver |
Fox Film
Directed by Frank Borzage
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Carlotta)
Paris sewer worker Charles Farrell helps poor Janet Gaynor avoid arrest by claiming to be her husband. In order to avoid arrest himself, he has to invite her to live with him in his attic apartment and pose as his wife. They fall in love for real of course, until he is called away at the outbreak of WWI. She patiently waits for him to return while working in a munitions factory and being aggressively pursued by her boss. The atmospheric production and luminous Gaynor more than offset the typical silent melodramatics.
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