Underground (1928)

Directed by

Anthony Asquith

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 24m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This silent film with music and sound effects follows the lives and romances of ordinary Londoners. The story takes place on and around the London Underground, showing people dealing with crowds and city life.

romanticlight-heartedurbanobservationaleverydaytenderquietly dramaticnostalgic

What happens

Underground is a 1928 British sound drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Brian Aherne, Elissa Landi, Cyril McLaglen, and Norah Baring. While the film has no audible dialogue, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects, using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. The film examines the lives of ordinary Londoners and the romance between them, set on and around the London Underground. The film starts and ends with an Underground train coming into a station. It shows humorous scenes of people coping with the crowds on the underground train. It also has interesting shoots of London, from a bus, of the Thames from the top of a power station which appears to be Lots Road Power Station, a pub, and a shop. The film has strong roles for the two leading women, while the men are more clichéd, one a villain and the other a blue-eyed, blond angel. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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