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Underworld
Directed by
Josef von Sternberg
Not Rated
1927
87m
Drama
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Crime
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and more
7.5
90%
87%
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Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.
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Cast of Underworld
George Bancroft
Bull Weed
Evelyn Brent
Feathers McCoy
Clive Brook
Rolls Royce Wensel
Fred Kohler
Buck Mulligan
Helen Lynch
Meg, Mulligan's Girl
Larry Semon
Slippy Lewis
Jerry Mandy
Paloma
Alfred Allen
Judge (uncredited)
Shep Houghton
Street Kid (uncredited)
Andy MacLennan
Laughing Man at the Ball (uncredited)
Ida May
Laughing Woman at the Ball (uncredited)
Karl Morse
High Collar Sam (uncredited)
Bob Reeves
Detective at Railroad Station (uncredited)
Julian Rivero
One of Buck’s Henchmen (uncredited)
Josef von Sternberg
Director / Writer
George Marion Jr.
Writer
Howard Hawks
Writer
Hector Turnbull
Producer
Underworld Ratings & Reviews
Vague Visages
Justine Smith
Few filmmakers in the history of cinema have invoked the inherent eroticism of the image like Sternberg...
Billboard
Roy Chartier
Many things combine to make Underworld an absorbing, spellbinding picture. The acting, direction, titles, photography, camera angles, story and action are a few of them.
Chicago Daily News
Carl Sandburg
Underworld does for the sophisticated adult what football does for the college boy. And Bancroft achieves something of the herculean glory of a gory fullback, with Von Sternberg as his general, showing him the openings, guiding his raging course.
LIFE
Robert E. Sherwood
It is the best picture of its type that has ever been made.
From the Front Row
Mattie Lucas
Its luridly evocative look at honor among the gangsters and thieves who populate the Dreamland Cafe of Chicago is the stuff that old Hollywood dreams are made of.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
A technical gem that showcases von Sternberg's prowess behind the camera.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Sternberg's richly ornamental compositions-which are dense with shadows and objects that separate viewers from the action-suggest a willful distance from his characters.
TV Guide
The film's influence on subsequent gangster films is indisputable.
Classic Film and Television
Michael E. Grost
Gripping, superbly told tale of crooks and their girlfriends.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
von Sternberg's visual style and the art direction by German émigré Hans Dreier elevate Underworld into something more than a run-of-the-mill crime picture
Parallax View
Sean Axmaker
Sternberg's direction is both classical and modern, with an expressive approach to storytelling and his distinctive visual style already apparent...
Variety
Variety Staff
There's a wallop right through and yet the film retains romance, clicks not a little on comedy and even whitewashes itself with a 'moral.'
Filmcritic.com
Paul Brenner
The real world was not yet ready for a full-blown gangster drama in 1927.
Slant Magazine
Fernando F. Croce
Josef von Sternberg's Underworld is a fascinating early cornerstone of both the director's worldview and the gangster genre.
New York Times
Mordaunt Hall
Largely through the competent work of Messrs. Bancroft and Brook, Mr. von Sternberg gives a better idea of his powers as a director.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Considered to be the first modern gangster film, where the criminals are the antihero heroes.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
The first full-fledged gangster movie and still an effective mood piece.
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