Ben Hecht won a Best Original Story Oscar at the very first Academy Awards ceremony for UNDERWORLD, Josef Von Sternberg's seminal silent classic that influenced countless gangster movies of the 1930s and '40s.
After robbing a bank, gangster Bull Weed (George Bancroft) encounters a drunken bum (Clive Brook) on the street and takes him home. Impressed with the man's intelligence and the fact that he used to be a lawyer, Bull dubs him "Rolls Royce" and eventually makes him a member of his gang. Bull's moll
Feathers (Evelyn Brent) falls for Rolls, but he refrains from an affair with her because of his debt of gratitude toward Bull. During the annual underworld ball,...
Released:
1927
Rated:
NR
Length:
75 mins