Thursday, January 14, 2010

Underworld (1927), Josef von Sternberg.


 "I guess this is why you're called Feathers?" 

They made Scarface right the first time, and it was called Underworld!  Ben Hecht scripted both; this one is the masterpiece and established the gangster genre.  Very dynamic camera use and full of wonderful details.  What other toughnut gangsters let starving kittens lick milk off their fingers?

 
Bull Weed finds a feather in his cigarette case.

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