When the Coen Brothers followed “No Country for Old Men” (2007) with “Burn After Reading” (2008) and “A Serious Man” (2009)—their darkly brilliant but aggressively anti-glamorous meditation on the ...

Director King Vidor's film 'The Crowd' (original title: The Crowd, produced in 1928) is a masterpiece of Hollywood silent ...

As was the case with every film project that he cared deeply about, filmmaker King Vidor had to fight long and hard with his studio bosses to get The Crowd produced. Though Vidor's parent studio MGM ...

become the “important” man his father promised he would be, James Murray, a little known actor, is less certain and more awkward, as is John Sims. the common man he plays. The score by Carl Davis is ...

urban-alienation movies are a tough sell. That's true today, and it was true in 1928, when director King Vidor proposed making his silent classic "The Crowd." The story of an office drudge who loses a ...

King Vidor was one of the filmmakers who established early Hollywood as a dominant force in world cinema — and yet we don’t hear his name as much as, say, Chaplin, Griffith, Ford or von Stroheim. Yet ...

A drab actionless story of ungodly length and apparently telling nothing. The longness of the picture suggests it was designed for a Metro special, but on what, only its authors, John V.A. Weaver and ...