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The Big City(Movie, 1928)

1h 10min | Genres: Drama, Crime
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The Big City is a 1928 American silent crime film directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney. Waldemar Young wrote the screenplay, based on a story by Tod Browning. The film is now lost. The last known print of the film had been sent to Australia in the late 1950s. The film was returned to MGM and placed in their vaults where it was destroyed in the same vault fire that also claimed London After Midnight and The Tower of Lies in 1965. A short trailer for the film survives at Cinémathèque française in France, but it does not include any actual footage from the film itself. Stills exist showing Chaney in the Chuck Collins role. This was Betty Compson's only film at MGM though she had appeared in a few Goldwyns, and even produced one, at the beginning of the decade. The sets were designed by Cedric Gibbons. The set for Chuck Collins' nightclub was also used for the nightclub scenes in While the City Sleeps. Clinton Ly... ()
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About The Big City

Gangster boss Chuck Collins, despite his ruthlessness, is a basically decent fellow. Collins is plagued by a rival gang, led by deceptively boyish Curly, who has been stealing jewelry from the rich and famous. Our "hero" tricks the other crooks into turning the gems over to him, intending to use them for his own profit (he throws the cops off track by hiding jewels in a plate of spaghetti!) But sweet heroine Sunshine eventually persuades Collins and his cohorts to turn honest.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: No Language (XX)
Translated into 1 language: English (EN)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 03/23/1928
Director: Tod Browning
Screenwriter: Tod Browning
Film Editor: Butch Reynolds
Keywords: lost film
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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Other movies with this title: The Big City (IN, 1963), The Big City (BR, 1966), The Big City (CA, 2017)

WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:129769, Added: 03/26/2018, Last updated: 03/15/2024