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
awardReceivedBy Ben Hecht
basedOn original story by Ben Hecht
character Bull Weed
Feathers McCoy
Rolls Royce
linked to: Rolls-Royce Motors
cinematographer Bert Glennon
countryOfOrigin United States
director Josef von Sternberg
distributedIn United States
distributor Paramount Pictures
editor E. Lloyd Sheldon
filmEra silent era
filmFormat 35 mm
format black-and-white
genre crime
gangster
hasFilmTechnique expressionistic lighting
location shooting
hasInfluenceOn Little Caesar (1931 film)
linked to: Little Caesar

Scarface (1932 film)
The Public Enemy (1931 film)
hasTheme loyalty and betrayal
organized crime
hasType narrative feature
includedIn early American gangster cinema
musicBy Hugo Riesenfeld
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
productionCompany Famous Players–Lasky Corporation
releaseDate 1927-08-20
releaseYear 1927
runtimeMinutes 81
screenwriter Ben Hecht
Charles Furthman
Robert N. Lee
setting Chicago
starring Clive Brook
Evelyn Brent
Fred Kohler
George Bancroft

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B. P. Schulberg notableWork Underworld (1927 film)