Underworld (1927 film)

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Underworld (1927 film) is a landmark silent gangster film directed by Josef von Sternberg that helped establish the crime genre in early American cinema.

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instanceOf gangster film
silent film
awardReceived Academy Award for Best Original Story NERFINISHED
awardReceivedBy Ben Hecht NERFINISHED
basedOn original story by Ben Hecht
character Bull Weed NERFINISHED
Feathers McCoy NERFINISHED
Rolls Royce NERFINISHED
cinematographer Bert Glennon NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Josef von Sternberg NERFINISHED
distributedIn United States of America
surface form: United States
distributor Paramount Pictures
editor E. Lloyd Sheldon NERFINISHED
filmEra silent era
filmFormat 35 mm
format black-and-white
genre crime
gangster
hasFilmTechnique expressionistic lighting
location shooting
hasInfluenceOn Little Caesar (1931 film) NERFINISHED
Scarface (1932 film) NERFINISHED
The Public Enemy (1931 film) NERFINISHED
hasTheme loyalty and betrayal
organized crime
hasType narrative feature
includedIn early American gangster cinema
musicBy Hugo Riesenfeld NERFINISHED
notableFor helping establish the gangster film genre in American cinema
influential depiction of organized crime in silent era
originalLanguage Silent film (English intertitles)
partOf American silent cinema
producer B. P. Schulberg NERFINISHED
productionCompany Famous Players–Lasky Corporation NERFINISHED
releaseDate 1927-08-20
releaseYear 1927
runtimeMinutes 81
screenwriter Ben Hecht NERFINISHED
Charles Furthman NERFINISHED
Robert N. Lee NERFINISHED
setting Chicago NERFINISHED
starring Clive Brook NERFINISHED
Evelyn Brent NERFINISHED
Fred Kohler NERFINISHED
George Bancroft NERFINISHED

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