Underworld

film by Sternberg [1927]

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  • Josef von Sternberg editing a film.
    In Josef von Sternberg: Films of the late 1920s

    …Sternberg’s first film at Paramount, Underworld (1927), was a seminal gangster drama that made the many others that followed possible. George Bancroft starred as the remorseless mobster “Bull” Weed; Evelyn Brent played his moll Feathers; and Clive Brook played his lieutenant Rolls Royce, who also loves Feathers. In The Last…

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Oscar to Hecht for best screenplay, 1928