Underworld (1927)
1927 · Silent film · 80 min · dir. Josef von Sternberg
'Nobody helps me -- I help them!'
- Drama
- silent film
- Crime
Synopsis
'Nobody helps me -- I help them!' boasts open-handed gangster Bull Weed, handing over what will prove to be the best investment in his high-spending career: a thousand dollars that will put the literate 'Rolls Royce' of vagrants back on his feet. Living it up in the Twenties with the aid of cool but smouldering moll Feathers, the Bull lords it over the law and his rivals alike -- specifically big Buck Mulligan, whose floral-tributes business echoes that of a certain real-life Chicago…
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Details
- Director
- Josef von Sternberg
- Writer
- Ben Hecht
- Cinematography
- Bert Glennon
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
- Released
- 1927-08-20
- Running time
- 80 minutes
Cast & crew
Josef von Sternberg Director
Fred Kohler
Helen Lynch
Clive Brook
George Bancroft
Larry Semon
Evelyn Brent
