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Showbiz: Amateur Adventures in Film Studies
77: You Are a FATHER, Sir! (The Crowd)
Season 2, Ep. 26
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This week we do a bit of noticing of visual motifs and lateral career moves in the brilliant The Crowd (1928).
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