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The Crowd
Drama, Romance
John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid the anonymous, pitiless throngs of the big city.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to emotionally direct silent-era realism about ordinary people struggling to preserve intimacy and dignity within an indifferent modern city.
- Tone
- melancholic, bleak, bittersweet
- Payoff
- heartbreak, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- marriage, urban alienation, economic insecurity, family grief
- Setting
- late 1920s, anonymous metropolitan streets and crowded office towers