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The Crowd

1928

King Vidor

James Murray, Eleanor Boardman, Bert Roach, Estelle Clark ...

8.1

3,576

Drama Born on the fourth of July, 1900, the future holds unlimited potential for newborn John Sims. But dreams soon fade with the death of his father when John is but a lad. Like many before him, John sets out to make his mark in New York City, but ends up a faceless worker (#137) in a large office of a large business. Still he is happy with his fate and soon meets a young woman named Mary on a blind double date.

	Author	Review
United States	Fernando F. Croce Slant	"Vidor's silent masterpiece (...) For all the overreaching themes at play here, it is supremely intimate (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Mordaunt Hall The New York Times	"A powerful analysis of a young couple's struggle for existence in this city [NY] (...) [Vidor] uses his camera in an inspired fashion."	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"The camera style owes something to Murnau, but the sense of space—the vast environments that define and attack his protagonists—is Vidor's own."	POS
United States	Variety	"A drab actionless story of ungodly length and apparently telling nothing."	NEG
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"Vidor, playing to that crowd, sternly warns against going it alone."	POS
United Kingdom	Tom Milne Time Out	"Certainly one of Vidor's best films, a silent masterpiece which turns a realistically caustic eye on the illusionism of the American dream."	POS
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"It's as good as people say, and it's worth seeing now (...) One of the virtues of 'The Crowd' is that it's not what you expect."	POS

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