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Underworld (1927). Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson

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A great city in the dead of night... streets lonely, moon-flooded... buildings empty as the cliff-dwellings of a forgotten age...

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Underworld (1927). Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson

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