Fresh
Vidor, playing to that crowd, sternly warns against going it alone.
Richard Brody, New Yorker
The Crowd
A Motion Picture with a stirring message on Marriage! A Powerful Film, full of truths of life and love!
1928 · 1h 38m · Not Rated
Drama, Romance
Directed by
King Vidor
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The Crowd
Overview
John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid the anonymous, pitiless throngs of the big city.
Director and cast
- King Vidor Director
- Eleanor Boardman as Mary
- James Murray as John 'Johnny' Sims
- Bert Roach as Bert
- Estelle Clark as Jane
- Daniel G. Tomlinson as Jim
- Dell Henderson as Dick
- Lucy Beaumont as Mary's Mother
- Freddie Burke Frederick as 'Junior' (John Sims Jr.)
- Alice Mildred Puter as Daughter
- John D. Bloss Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
96%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The camera style owes something to Murnau, but the sense of space -- the vast environments that define and attack his protagonists -- is Vidor's own.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten
A drab actionless story of ungodly length and apparently telling nothing.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
Throughout this subject Mr. Vidor shrewdly avoids the stereotyped conception of setting forth scenes, and in more than one case he uses his camera in an inspired fashion.
Mordaunt Hall, New York Times
Fresh
The performances are absolutely flawless, and astonishing location work in the busy New York streets (including a giddy tour of Coney Island on a blind date) lends a gritty ring of truth to his intensely human odyssey.
Tom Milne, Time Out
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