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Underworld (1927)

NR 08/20/1927 (US) Drama, Crime, Romance 1h 27m

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'Nobody helps me -- I help them!'

Overview

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.

Josef von Sternberg

Director, Writer
Ben Hecht

Story
Robert N. Lee

Writer
George Marion Jr.

Writer
Charles Furthman

Writer
Howard Hawks

Writer

Top Billed Cast

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)
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Josef von Sternberg does well here with his adaptation of Ben Hecht's gangster thriller. George Bancroft is "Bull Weed", a rumbustious character, in love with the aptly monikered "Feathers" - because she wears them everywhere - Evelyn Brent. His former attorney, the dapper "Rolls Royce Wensel" (Clive Brook) has problems with the bottle, but "Weed" manages to ween him off - only for the latter to fall in love with his gal. When "Weed" is finally apprehended by the police for murder, and sentenced to swing for it - the others must decide whether to abscond together, or to try to spring him! "Bull... read the rest.

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