Д«en Hecht won the Academy Award for Writing in the 1st Academy Awards ceremony in 1929 for his work on this film. Paramount, overjoyed at the film's 'critical and commercial success' bestowed a gold medal and a $10,000 bonus on Sternberg. Filmmaker and surrealist Luis BuГ±uel named Underworld as his all time favorite film. Underworld was well-received overseas, especially in France, where directors Julien Duvivier and Marcel CarnГ© were deeply impressed with Sternberg's 'clinical and spartan' film technique. Time felt the film was realistic in some parts, but disliked the Hollywood clichГ© of turning an evil character's heart to gold at the end. Andrew Sarris, from The Films of Josef von Sternberg (1966). to light a cigarette, to grasp a coffee cup, to fondle one's furs is, for Sternberg, equivalent to baring one's soul. No director in the history of cinema can match Sternberg's preoccupation with the harmonies of hand signals. Writer Ben Hecht requested (unsuccessfully) to have his name taken off the credits, due to the dismal prospects for the film.Д¬ontrary to studio expectations, the public response to the New York screening was so positive that Paramount arranged for round-the-clock showings at the Paramount Theatre to 'accommodate the unexpected crowds that flocked to the attraction.' The studio did not provide advance publicity. Initial release was limited to only one theater, the New York Paramount. Paramount Pictures, initially cool towards the production, predicted the film would fail. The gangster role played by George Bancroft was modeled on 'Terrible' Tommy O'Connor, an Irish-American mobster who gunned down Chicago Police Chief Padraig O'Neil in 1923 but escaped three days before execution and was never apprehended. Sternberg completed Underworld in a record-setting five weeks. Schulberg and Hector Turnbull with cinematography by Bert Glennon and edited by E. Underworld is based on a story by Ben Hecht, a former Chicago crime reporter, and adapted for screenplay by Robert N. The film would 'establish Sternberg in the Hollywood system.' Production The result was his most famous film to date of his career - Underworld. His work was so outstanding that the studio awarded him with a project of his own. He was quickly assigned to reshoot portions of director Frank Lloyd's Children of Divorce. Sternberg accepted a contract offer from Paramount Pictures in 1926, with the humbling condition that he was demoted to the role of assistant director. As Sternberg sardonically quipped in his 1965 memoir Fun in a Chinese Laundry, 'It was 's last film and nearly my own.'

This episode also ended badly: the film was never released and Chaplin felt compelled to destroy all film negatives. Sternberg's next project was an assignment by Charlie Chaplin (United Artists) to write and direct A Woman of the Sea starring Edna Purviance.

The film was completed by director Christy Cabanne Josef von Sternberg's brief tenure as director at M-G-M was terminated by mutual consent in 1925 shortly after he walked off the set of a Mae Murray vehicle The Masked Bride. Julian Rivero as One of Buck's Henchmen (uncredited).Karl Morse as 'High Collar' Sam (uncredited).Ida May as Laughing Woman at the Ball (uncredited).Andy MacLennan as One of Laughing Faces at the Ball (uncredited).Shep Houghton as Street Kid (uncredited).Rolls Royce devises an escape plan, but he and Feathers face a dilemma, wondering if they should elope together and leave Bull Weed to his fate. Their antagonism climaxes with Weed killing Mulligan and he is imprisoned, awaiting a death sentence. The two become confidants, with Rolls Royce's intelligence aiding Weed's schemes, but complications arise when Rolls Royce falls for Weed's girlfriend 'Feathers' McCoy.ДЄdding to Weed's troubles are attempts by a rival gangster, 'Buck' Mulligan, to muscle in on his territory. Boisterous gangster kingpin 'Bull' Weed rehabilitates the down-and-out 'Rolls Royce' Wensel, a former lawyer who has fallen into alcoholism.

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