While the City Sleeps (1928 film)
- While the City Sleeps (1928 film)
Infobox Film | name = While the City Sleeps
director = Jack Conway
producer =
writer = Story and Scenario:
A.P. Younger
Titles:
Joseph Farnham
starring = Lon Chaney Sr.
Anita Page
Carroll Nye
Wheeler Oakman
Mae Busch
cinematography = Henry Sharp
editing = Sam Zimbalist
distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures
released = September 15, 1928
runtime = 70 min
country = USA
language = Silent film
English intertitles
"While the City Sleeps", is a 1928 silent movie, about a New York City police detective, played by Lon Chaney Sr., out to get a murderer.
ynopsis
Myrtle, a silly, innocent flapper, falls in love with Marty, a dapper gangster, and learns too much for her own good about Skeeter, the gang leader. Skeeter threatens to rub her out, and Myrtle appeals for help to Dan Callahan, a veteran detective with flat feet and a tough disposition. Dan puts her up in his boardinghouse and against his better judgment soon falls in love with her; he asks her to marry him, and out of gratitute she agrees. Dan eventually learns that Myrtle is in love with Marty, and he reunites them, meantime helping Marty to take his first, tentative steps on the straight and narrow path.
Background
Los Angeles City Hall, which opened in April of 1928, appears on film for perhaps the first time in the background of a few rooftop scenes.
All prints missing portion's from reels 6 and 7.
The original Soundtrack for the feature is lost.
References
[http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=2416&category=Overview Article on "While the City Sleeps" at TCM Movie Database]
External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019571 "While the City Sleeps" at Internet Movie Database]
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