1928 · silent · drama · london
Underground
Directed by Anthony Asquith1h 33m1928
A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Two men – gentle Bill and brash Bert – meet and are attracted to the same woman on the same day at the same Underground station. But the lady chooses Bill, and Bert isn't the type to take rejection lightly...
Our read: Underground (1928) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive silent · drama · london entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured silent / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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