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Underworld (1927)

Name: Underworld
Genre: Crime & Mystery
Released: 1927
Duration: 1 h 21 min
Cast: Evelyn Brent, Larry Semon, George Bancroft, Clive Brook, Helen Lynch

192782 minCrime & Mystery✓ Verified rightsSilent · CC0 piano score

Underworld (1927) is an 82-minute crime and mystery film that airs free on Starlite TV's Silent Pictures (CH 12) channel. It is a silent film, presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score. It is in the U.S. public domain. Directed by Josef von Sternberg.

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About Underworld (1927)

Underworld (also released as Paying the Penalty) is a 1927 American silent gangster film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent and George Bancroft. It is considered one of the earliest examples of the film noir genre.

Boisterous gangster kingpin 'Bull' Weed rehabilitates the down-and-out 'Rolls Royce' Wensel, a former lawyer who has fallen into alcoholism. The two become confidants, with Rolls Royce's intelligence aiding Weed's schemes, but complications arise when Rolls Royce falls for Weed's girlfriend 'Feathers' McCoy. Adding to Weed's troubles are attempts by a rival gangster, 'Buck' Mulligan, to muscle in on his territory. Their antagonism climaxes with Weed killing Mulligan and he is imprisoned.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Underworld (1927 film) (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: Josef von Sternberg
Cast includes: Evelyn Brent, Larry Semon, George Bancroft, Clive Brook, Helen Lynch, Fred Kohler
Country: United States

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Airs on

Silent Pictures - CH 12, Silent Film TV

Rights & source

Basis: Published before 1931 - U.S. copyright term expired
Evidence: First published 1927 (before 1931): US copyright term has expired.
Music: Silent film: this copy has an added soundtrack of unknown origin, so original audio is MUTED and a CC0 (Musopen) piano bed is played instead.
Underlying rights: Silent (von Sternberg).
Source: Internet Archive

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