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Lonely Town: ‘The Crowd’ (1928)

March 21, 2019 By retromoviebuff Leave a Comment

Here’s the second instalment in my ‘New York State of Mind’ series. The Crowd is about a man who moves to a big city and waits for his life to get started, without realising that his life has become waiting. So desperate is he to stand out from the crowd, he never considers there might […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Classic Hollywood, Drama, James Murray, King Vidor, MGM, New York, Silent Film

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