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Underworld (1927)Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend. |
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George Bancroft | ... |
'Bull' Weed
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'Feathers' McCoy
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Clive Brook | ... |
Rolls Royce Wensel
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Fred Kohler | ... |
'Buck' Mulligan
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Helen Lynch | ... |
Meg, Mulligan's Girl
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Larry Semon | ... |
'Slippy' Lewis
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Jerry Mandy | ... |
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'Nobody helps me -- I help them!' boasts open-handed gangster Bull Weed, handing over what will prove to be the best investment in his high-spending career: a thousand dollars that will put the literate 'Rolls Royce' of vagrants back on his feet. Living it up in the Twenties with the aid of cool but smouldering moll Feathers, the Bull lords it over the law and his rivals alike -- specifically big Buck Mulligan, whose floral-tributes business echoes that of a certain real-life Chicago gangster... Yet Feathers, prize possession and object of envy, proves his weak point; and in the end, Bull Weed will indeed come to need help from others, and more than he has ever needed it before. But can Rolls Royce and Feathers still give it to him? And will the Bull accept? Written by Igenlode Wordsmith
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Paying the Penalty See more »Company Credits
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"Underworld" was submitted to the British Board of Film Censors three times: - The first submission, under the original title, was rejected because of the sympathetic portrayal of a criminal. - The second submission, under the title "The Penalty" and with cuts, was rejected. - The third submission, under the title "Paying the Penalty" to give the movie a more moral stance, and with additional cuts, was passed with an "A" certificate. See more »Quotes
'Bull' Weed: -There was something I had to find out - - and that hour was worth more to me than my whole life.See more »
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