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7.6John, 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.
Cast
- Eleanor Boardman as Mary Sims
- James Murray as John 'Johnny' Sims
- Bert Roach as Bert
- Estelle Clark as Jane
- Daniel G. Tomlinson as Jim
- Dell Henderson as Dick
Themes
- new york city
- marriage
- tragedy
- silent film
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Ratings
IMDb
8.1/10
9,436 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
96%
- Year
- 1928
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Awards
- Nominated for 2 Oscars. 4 wins & 2 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- King Vidor
- Written by
- Joseph Farnham (titles)
- Screenplay by
- King Vidor, John V.A. Weaver
- Story by
- King Vidor, Harry Behn (uncredited)
- Produced by
- Irving Thalberg
- Starring
- James Murray , Eleanor Boardman , Bert Roach
- Cinematography
- Henry Sharp
- Edited by
- Hugh Wynn
- Production company
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Distributed by
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Release dates
- February 28, 1928 ( 1928-02-28 ) ( NYC ) March 3, 1928 ( 1928-03-03 ) ( US )
- Running time
- 98 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- Silent (English intertitles )
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 104
- FilmAffinity ID
- 315338
- Image
- The Crowd (SAYRE 14822).jpg
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- publication date
- 1928-01-01
- title
- The Crowd
- Commons category
- The Crowd (film)
- review score
- 96%
- public domain date
- 2024-01-01
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The Crowd is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by King Vidor and starring James Murray, Eleanor Boardman and Bert Roach. The feature film was nominated at the first Academy Award presentation in 1929 for several awards, including Unique and Artistic Production for MGM and Best Director for Vidor. The film is widely regarded by critics and historians as one of the greatest films ever made and a landmark of silent-era cinema.
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.