The Crowd (1928)

Directed by

King Vidor

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 200 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man moves to New York City with grand ambitions but struggles to find success and stability. The film follows his marriage and the disappointments of ordinary life as he gets lost in the crowd.

melancholicpoignantslow-burnobservationalgroundedemotionalintimatebleak

What happens

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. The film entered the public domain in the United States in 2024. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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