Are These Our Children? (1931) Starring Eric Linden and Arline Judge

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

“I played the real me in the end. The boy who said the prayer was Eric Linden. That was a very simple thing” (Parish 354).

Above: Linden confronted with his grandmother (Beryl Mercer) at end of Are These Our Children?

It’s at the very end of Are These Our Children?, when Linden’s Eddie Brandt is moments from execution, that the young actor made audiences cry with his recitation of the Lord’s Prayer. It’s a melancholy endi...