The Crowd is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by King Vidor and starring James Murray, Eleanor Broadman 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. The plot centers around the life of a man and woman together in a large, impersonal metropolis through their hopes, struggles, and downfalls.
Synopsis – The future holds unlimited for newborn John Sims as he is born on the Fourth of July 1900. But dreams soon fade with his father’s death when John is still but a lad. Like many before him, John sets out to make his mark in New York City, but ends up a faceless worker in a large office of a large business. Still, he is happy with his fate and soon meets a young woman named Mary on a blind double-date. Things take their course and they soon marry and live in a small apartment. Soon John is bickering with Mary and finds that he has no love for the in-laws. When the marriage looks like a bust, he finds that Mary is with child and he stays. After 5 years, he has a son and a daughter and the same dead-end job. When tragedy strikes, John must find the conviction to continue or lose what little he has left.
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Film duration 98 minutes.