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'Nobody helps me -- I help them!'
'Nobody helps me -- I help them!'
Crime, Drama, Romance - 1927
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Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.
Director:
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Josef von Sternberg
Cast:
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Clive Brook
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George Bancroft
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Evelyn Brent
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Fred Kohler
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Helen Lynch

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Runtime:
87 min
Release date:
20 Aug 1927
Country:
US
Languages:
xx
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
Won 1 Oscar. 5 wins total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
There's a wallop right through and yet the film retains romance, clicks not a little on comedy and even whitewashes itself with a 'moral.'
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
fresh:
Largely through the competent work of Messrs. Bancroft and Brook, Mr. von Sternberg gives a better idea of his powers as a director.
– Mordaunt Hall,
New York Times,
25 Mar 2006
fresh:
The film radiates total confidence in its own means and methods, and the themes are wholly Sternberg's.
– Tony Rayns,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
fresh:
The first full-fledged gangster movie and still an effective mood piece.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
24 Sep 2001
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