While the City Sleeps (1928 film)
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| While the City Sleeps | |
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| Directed by | Jack Conway |
| Written by | 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 by | Sam Zimbalist |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures |
| Release date(s) | September 15, 1928 |
| Running time | 70 min |
| Country |  United States |
| 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.
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[edit] Synopsis
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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] References
Article on While the City Sleeps at TCM Movie Database
