The Crowd (1928 film)
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| Directed by | King Vidor |
| Produced by | Irving Thalberg |
| Written by | Joseph Farnham (titles) |
| Screenplay by | King Vidor John V.A. Weaver |
| Story by | King Vidor Harry Behn (uncredited) |
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James Murray Eleanor Boardman Bert Roach |
| Cinematography | Henry Sharp |
| Edited by | Hugh Wynn |
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| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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98 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Crowd is a 1928 American silent film directed by King Vidor and starring James Murray, Eleanor Boardman and Bert Roach.
The film is an influential and acclaimed feature which was nominated for the Academy Awards for Unique and Artistic Production for MGM, and the award for Directing (drama) for King Vidor at the very first Academy Award presentation in 1928. In 1989, the film was one of the first 25 to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Kevin Brownlow and David Gill restored The Crowd in 1981, and it was released with a score by Carl Davis
Born on the Fourth of July, 1900, John Sims (James Murray) loses his father when he is twelve. At 21, he sets out for New York City, where he is sure he will become somebody important, just as his father had always believed. Another boat passenger warns him that he will have to be good to stand out in the crowd.
He gets a job as one of many office workers in the Atlas Insurance Company. Fellow employee Bert (Bert Roach) talks him into a double date to Coney Island. John is so smitten with Mary (Eleanor Boardman), he proposes to her at the end of the date; she accepts; Bert predicts the marriage will last a year or two. The couple honeymoon in Niagara Falls.
In the tiny apartment next to an elevated train track where the couple live, a Christmas Eve dinner with Mary's mother (Lucy Beaumont) and two brothers (Daniel G. Tomlinson and Dell Henderson), with whom John is not on friendly terms, ends badly. John goes to Bert's to get some liquor, where a young woman throws herself at him, tells him how handsome he is, and starts dancing with him. John does not return until it is very late and he is very drunk. Mary's family has gone home, and she tells him that they don't understand him. "Do you understand me?" he asks, and she answers "I think so." They exchange Christmas gifts and John calls here a "wonnerful little women", but yells at her when she opens an umbrella in the apartment.
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