{"product_id":"crowd-the-us-import-blu-ray","title":"Crowd, The (US Import BLU-RAY) Coming to Our Shelves December 2026","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HOS0BymDatk?si=6PKUkmlkm_QoQwVV\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOn the heels of his massively successful \u003cem\u003eThe Big Parade\u003c\/em\u003e (1925), director King Vidor delivered another masterpiece with \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, an effortlessly relatable treatise on the human condition that is every bit as soul-stirring today as it was when it first arrived nearly a century ago.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSetting virtual unknown James Murray as born-on-the-fourth-of-July American everyman Johnny Sims and the illuminating Eleanor Boardman as Mary, Vidor explores the contradictions of being alive, balancing the existential dread of becoming an insignificant cog in an oppressive system with the sublime beauty of simply maintaining one’s soul in the face of eternal struggle and impossible loss. 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