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Introduced as a “story of ordinary workaday people,” Anthony Asquith’s Underground (1928) masterfully balances the light and dark sides of city life to evoke the daily existence of the average Londoner better than any other film from Britain’s silent canon. It tells the story of an electrician (Cyril McLaglen) and an underground porter (Brian Aherne) who both fall in love with the same shop girl (Elissa Landi). Asquith is one of the supreme stylists of the British silent cinema, and Underground is a grand display of his expressionistic talents. (Kino Lorber)
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Brian Aherne
UK
Best movies:
Juarez (1939)
Underground (1928)
I Confess (1953)
Elissa Landi
Italy
Best movies:
After the Thin Man (1936)
The Sign of the Cross (1932)
Underground (1928)
Norah Baring
UK
Best movies:
Escape from Dartmoor (1929)
Underground (1928)
Murder! (1930)