Underworld (1927 film)

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Underworld
Directed by	Josef von Sternberg
Produced by	Hector Turnbull
Written by	Charles Furthman Robert N. Lee
Starring	George Bancroft Clive Brook Evelyn Brent Larry Semon Fred Kohler
Cinematography	Bert Glennon
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	1927
Country	United States
Language	Silent film English intertitles

Underworld is a 1927 silent film directed by Josef von Sternberg. Originally, it was to have been directed by Arthur Rosson, but he was fired by Paramount Pictures. It was written by Ben Hecht, adapted by Charles Furthman and Robert N. Lee, with titles by George Marion Jr.. It was produced by B.P. Schulberg and Hector Turnbull with cinematography by Bert Glennon and edited by E. Lloyd Sheldon.

Paramount Pictures initially predicted this film to be a failure and therefore only released in one theater initially in New York. Ben Hecht even asked for his name to be taken off the credits. After strong word-of-mouth, the movie went on to become a hit.

[edit] Awards

• Ben Hecht won the Academy Award for Writing in the 1st Academy Awards ceremony in 1927 for his work on this film.

[edit] References in Popular Culture

• Don DeLillo mentions it in the section of his 1997 bestseller Underworld, that a fictional Sergei Eisenstein film called Unterwelt is reminiscent of the film Underworld.

[edit] External links

• Underworld at the Internet Movie Database
• Underworld at Allmovie

v • d • e Films directed by Josef von Sternberg 1920s The Salvation Hunters (1925) · Exquisite Sinner (1926) · A Woman of the Sea (1926) · Underworld (1927) · The Last Command (1928) · The Dragnet (1928) · The Docks of New York (1928) · The Case of Lena Smith (1929) · Thunderbolt (1929) 1930s The Blue Angel (1930) · Morocco (1930) · Dishonored (1931) · An American Tragedy (1931) · Shanghai Express (1932) · Blonde Venus (1932) · The Scarlet Empress (1934) · The Devil Is a Woman (1935) · Crime and Punishment (1935) · The King Steps Out (1936) · I, Claudius (1937, unfinished) · Sergeant Madden (1939) 1940s The Shanghai Gesture (1941) · The Town (1944, short) 1950s Macao (1952) · Anatahan (1953) · Jet Pilot (1957)

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