| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | Won | Oscar | Best Writing, Original Story Ben Hecht |
Paramount Pictures
Directed by Josef von Sternberg
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Criterion Collection)
Macho gangster Bull Weed (George Bancroft) tries to impress his girlfriend by converting a bum from the gutter into his manservant. He thinks a rival gangster is after her and kills him one night in a jealous rage. Little does he realize it's really his servant that she has fallen in love with. Sitting on death row, they hatch a plan to spring him at the last minute. In a final shoot out with the police, the gangster shows that he is really a softie at heart. Sternberg's first film is not a hard boiled gangster drama at all, but rather a love story that just happens to involve gangsters.
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