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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 717

The Crowd

192898 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs: 89:30
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · King Vidor · Public domain

Synopsis

John Sims arrives in New York certain that he will distinguish himself from everyone around him. An office job, marriage and children give him a life filled with ordinary responsibilities, but little of the recognition he expected. As setbacks place his family under strain, his belief in exceptional success becomes increasingly difficult to reconcile with daily survival.

Cast

James Murray

Eleanor Boardman

Bert Roach

DirectorsKing Vidor

Behind the scenes

Vidor combines scenes filmed in New York with expressive studio work and models. The vast office floor and the movement between a single household and the surrounding city make scale an important part of the drama.

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Photograph credit

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James Murray — Screenland , Vol. 15, No. 4, p. 22 via https://archive.org/details/Screenland-1927-08-Vol-15-No-4 · Public domain
Eleanor Boardman — Unknown author · Public domain
Bert Roach — Universal Film Manufacturing Company; Universal Weekly (1922) at the Internet Archive · Public domain

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