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Bookmark this pageUnderground (1928)
Director: Anthony Asquith
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From Time Out Film Guide
Asquith's first solo feature is set in the strangely surreal world of the Northern Line in the 1920s, with shopgirls and porters, dressmakers and power station workers tangling and untangling their love lives between Leicester Square and Stockwell. Asquith virtually dispenses with titles, and relies on some splendid acting - particularly from lynx-eyed Landi and weaselly cloth-capped womaniser McLaglen - and on Karl Fischer's sensitively expressionistic lighting to carry his trite but well-constructed story from light romance to brooding melodrama, with an emotional triangle leading to murder and a chase through the Battersea Power Station.Author: RMy
Cast & crew
Director: Anthony Asquith
Producer: H Bruce Woolfe
Cast: Elissa Landi, Brian Aherne, Cyril McLaglen, Norah Baring full cast
Genre(s): Documentaries, Thrillers
Duration: 81 mins
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