The film brought in $533.3 million (domestically) and $1,004.6 million (or over $1 billion) worldwide, with a production budget of $185 million.BackgroundThe Crowd(1928) is a genuine, immortal, timeless American silent film masterpiece from director King Vidor, whose earlier big WWI epicThe Big Parade (1925)had been a major box-office hit for MGM studios."What a day that was for McTeague...what a never-to-be-forgotten day!" Some of hem go to the merry-go-round - with the camera on the platform itself, Trina and Mac ride two abreast.Bourne learned from Ross that Blackbriar was a "Treadstone upgrade," and that Bourne was "square one, the dirty little secret.Sherwood), Best Editing, Best Musical Score -- its nomination for Best Sound was the only one that failed o win.[Shortly later, Franklin was found bloodied on his bed, dead from a viral infection.]Will successfully bribed John Landon with an envelope full of bills to release Caesar - but to his surprise, Caesar refused to leave his cage (Landon: "I guess he like it better here with his own kind").