The Big City

The Big City is a 1928 silent crime film directed by Tod Browning. It 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 claimed London After Midnight in 1967.

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  • Mar 24, 1928

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Tod Browning

Tod Browning (born Charles Albert Browning, Jr., July 12, 1880 – October 6, 1962) was an American motion picture actor, director and screenwriter. Browning's career spanned the silent and talkie eras. Best known as the director of Dracula (1931), the cult classic Freaks (1932), and classic silent...

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