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title: 'Romance of the Underworld (1928)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Irving Cummings'
released: '1928-01-01'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/romance-of-the-underworld-1928'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020341/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Romance of the Underworld (1928)

1928 · Drama, Romance · United States


## Synopsis

Romance of the Underworld is a 1928 American synchronized sound drama film produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-film movietone process. Directed by Irving Cummings and starring Mary Astor, it was based upon the 1911 stage play A Romance of the Underworld by Paul Armstrong. A previous version of the story was filmed as A Romance of the Underworld in 1918 by director James Kirkwood with Catherine Calvert in Astor's part.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Irving Cummings](https://cinepixo.com/people/irving-cummings)
- **Screenplay:** [Douglas Z. Doty](https://cinepixo.com/people/douglas-z-doty)
- **Producer:** [William Fox](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-fox-2)
- **Director of Photography:** [Conrad Wells](https://cinepixo.com/people/conrad-wells)

## Cast

- [Mary Astor](https://cinepixo.com/people/mary-astor)

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