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The Big City is a american film of genre Drama directed by Tod Browning released in USA on 23 march 1928 with Lon Chaney

The Big City (1928)

The Big City
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Released in USA 23 march 1928
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OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Crime
Rating68% 3.4091453.4091453.4091453.4091453.409145

The Big City is a 1928 American silent crime film directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney.

The film is now a lost film. The last known print of the film had been sent to Australia in the late 1950s. The film was returned to MGM and placed in their vaults where it perished in the same vault fire that also claimed London After Midnight in 1967. A short trailer for the film survives at Cinémathèque française in France, but it does not include any footage from the film.

Synopsis

Propriétaire d'une boîte de nuit, le gangster Chuck Collins a trouvé un bon moyen pour éloigner les soupçons de la police : dissimuler son butin dans la boutique d'une voisine. Mais Collins a aussi des problèmes avec son rival Curly, le chef d'une bande de gangsters.

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