- Underworld (1927 film)
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name = Underworld
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director =Josef von Sternberg
producer =Hector Turnbull
writer =Charles Furthman Robert N. Lee
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starring = George BancroftClive Brook Evelyn Brent Larry Semon Fred Kohler
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cinematography =Bert Glennon
editing =
distributor =Paramount Pictures
released = 1927
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country = USA
language =Silent film
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amg_id = 1:115111
imdb_id = 0018526:"There were also films called Underworld in 1937, 1985, 1996 and 2003".
"Underworld" is a 1927
silent film directed byJosef von Sternberg . Originally, it was to have been directed byArthur Rosson , but he was fired byParamount Pictures . It was written byBen Hecht , adapted byCharles Furthman andRobert N. Lee , with titles byGeorge Marion Jr. . It was produced byB.P. Schulberg andHector Turnbull with cinematography byBert Glennon and edited byE. 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.
Awards
*Ben Hecht won the Academy Award for Writing in the
1st Academy Awards ceremony in1927 for his work on this film.External links
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References in Popular Culture
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Don DeLillo mentions it in the section of his 1997 bestseller "Underworld", that aSergei Eisenstein film called "Unterwelt" is reminiscent of the film "Underworld".
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