Romance of the Underworld (1928)
- Directed by
- Irving Cummings
- Genre
- drama film, silent film, romance film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 08m
- Rating
- 5.8 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A woman gets involved with a criminal underworld. She must navigate dangerous circumstances and romantic entanglements.
somberromanticdatedmelodramatictenseatmosphericstagedearly-talkie
What happens
Romance of the Underworld is a 1928 American synchronized sound drama film produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-film movietone process. Directed by Irving Cummings and starring Mary Astor, it was based upon the 1911 stage play A Romance of the Underworld by Paul Armstrong. A previous version of the story was filmed as A Romance of the Underworld in 1918 by director James Kirkwood with Catherine Calvert in Astor's part. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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