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The Big City

1928 film by Tod Browning
Movie Film Q3822606
The Big City
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Facts

15 properties
Instance of
film
Director
Tod Browning[1]
Genre
silent film, crime film[3][4]
Publication date
1928[15]
Screenwriter
Tod Browning[2]
Aspect ratio (W:H)
4:3[19]
Cast member
Lon Chaney, Betty Compson, Matthew Betz, Marceline Day, James Murray, John George, Virginia Pearson[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
Color
black-and-white[13]
Copyright status
public domain[20]
Country of origin
United States[14]
Distributed by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer[16]
Film editor
Harry Reynolds[17]
Production company
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer[12]
State of transmission
lost[21]
Title
The Big City[18]
🏷️ Also known as
en Big City en The Big City de In den Händen der Polizei de Das unsichtbare New York es Los antros del crimen fa شهر بزرگ (فیلم ۱۹۲۸) fr Loup de soie noire fr Le Loup de soie noire it Grande città it La grande città it The Big City nl Het nachtleven van New-York nl The Big City (1928) uk Велике місто (фільм, 1928)
🔖 Identifiers · 19
AFI Catalog of Feature Films ID
2851
AllMovie title ID
v84974
Cinema Context ID
F004038
FilmAffinity film ID
382980
Filmová databáze film ID
182480
Freebase ID
/m/043s72m
Garance item ID
7569766
IMDb ID
tt0018697
Kinobox film ID
63450
Kinopoisk film ID
38510
Letterboxd film ID
the-big-city-1928
Movie Review Query Engine ID
the-big-city-m100018946
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OFDb film ID
32407
Plex media key
5d776bfe23d5a3001f5164e2
SilentEra.com film ID
B/BigCity1928
TMDB movie ID
371721
TheTVDB movie ID
56959
Trakt.tv film ID
309525
ČSFD film ID
69484

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🔗 Connections
Cast member 7
Lon Chaney, Betty Compson, Marceline Day, Virginia Pearson, Matthew Betz, John George, James Murray
Genre 2
silent film, crime film
Aspect ratio (W:H) 1
4:3
Color 1
black-and-white
Country of origin 1
United States
Director 1
Tod Browning
Distributed by 1
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Film editor 1
Harry Reynolds
Instance of 1
film
Production company 1
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Screenwriter 1
Tod Browning
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Betty Compson film Lon Chaney Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Tod Browning United States

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  1. 11d ago · Rémi sim · 2026-11-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Garance item ID → 7569766
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #63114: Garance ID - Films, 192X"
  2. 11w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Filmová databáze film ID → 182480
    "Created claim: Filmová databáze film ID: 182480, batch #269268"
  3. 21w ago · Einar Myre · 2026-06-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Color → black-and-white
    State of transmission → lost
    Aspect ratio (W:H) → 4:3
    Instance of → film
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Merged from another item"
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