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The Crowd(Movie, 1928)

1h 38min | Genres: Drama, Romance / Love
The CrowdRating: 3.8/5 (with 7171 votes)
The Crowd is a 1928 American silent romance film directed by King Vidor and starring James Murray, Eleanor Boardman and Bert Roach. The feature film was nominated at the very first Academy Award presentation in 1929, for several awards, including Unique and Artistic Production for MGM and Best Director for Vidor. Kevin Brownlow and David Gill restored The Crowd in 1981, and it was released with a score by Carl Davis. In 1989, the film was one of the first 25 selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In February 2020, the film was shown at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, as part of a retrospective dedicated to Vidor's career. The film entered the public domain in the United States in 2024. ()
Movie poster of The Crowd

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Awards & Nominations for The Crowd

Academy Award for Best Director (dramatic Picture)

About The Crowd

John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid the anonymous, pitiless throngs of the big city.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: No Language (XX)
Translated into 13 languages: German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 03/03/1928
Director: King Vidor
Producer: Irving Thalberg
Screenwriter: King Vidor
Film Editor: Hugh Wynn
Director of Photography: Henry Sharp
Composer: Carl Davis
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"A Turba"
"Die Menge"
"Mensch der Masse"
"Y el mundo marcha"
"군중들"
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:11723, Added: 02/18/2018, Last updated: 02/29/2024