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Romance of the Underworld is a american film of genre Drama directed by Irving Cummings released in USA on 10 november 1928 with Mary Astor
Romance of the Underworld (1928)
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Add to a movie listRomance of the Underworld is a 1928 American silent film drama produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation. Directed by Irving Cummings and starring Mary Astor. It is taken from a stage play called A Romance of the Underworld by Paul Armstrong. A previous version of the story was filmed in 1918 by director James Kirkwood with Catherine Calvert in Astor's part. The 1928 film is extant at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Mary Astor
(Judith Andrews)
Robert Elliott
(Edwin Burke)
Ben Bard
(Derby Dan Manning)
Robert Elliot
(Edwin Burke)
John Boles
(Stephen Ransome)
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