Silent Era Information*Progressive Silent Film List*Lost Films*People*Theatres
Taylorology*Articles*Home Video*Books*Search
 
Pandora's Box BD
 
Silent Era Home Page  >  PSFL  >  While the City Sleeps (1928)
 
Progressive Silent Film List
A growing source of silent era film information.
This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett.
Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company.
All Rights Reserved.
About This Listing

Report Omissions or Errors
in This Listing

 
 
  Lon Chaney.
Photograph: courtesy Jon Mirsalis at lonchaney.org.
 
 
While the City Sleeps
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels / 7231 feet
Directed by Jack Conway

Cast: Lon Chaney [Dan Callahan], Anita Page [Myrtle], Carroll Nye [Marty], Wheeler Oakman [Skeeter], Mae Busch [Bessie], Polly Moran [Mrs. McGinnis], Lydia Yeamans Titus [Mrs. Sullivan], William Orlamond [Dwiggins], Richard Carle [Wally]

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Scenario by A.P. Younger, from a screen story by A.P. Younger. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons. Costume design by Gilbert Clark. Cinematography by Henry Sharp. Music score by William Axt + [Edward Cupero]. Film editor, Sam S. Zimbalist. Intertitles written by Joseph Farnham. / Released 15 September 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Drama: Crime.

Synopsis: A detective falls in love with the woman he is charged with protecting.

Survival status: Print exists in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Criminals: Gangsters - Law: Enforcement: Police: Detectives, Policemen - USA: California: Los Angeles - USA: New York: New York

Listing updated: 27 July 2010.

References: Everson-Detective p. 32; Parish-Gangster pp. 2, 413; Sweeney-Coming p. 128; Weaver-Twenty p. 77.

 
Silent Era Home Page  >  PSFL  >  While the City Sleeps (1928)
 
Hunchback of Notre Dame BD
Become a Patron of Silent Era

LINKS IN THIS COLUMN
WILL TAKE YOU TO
EXTERNAL WEBSITES

SUPPORT SILENT ERA
USING THESE LINKS
WHEN SHOPPING AT
AMAZON

AmazonUS
AmazonCA
AmazonUK

Kino Hunchback BD

Phantom of the Opera BD

Chaney Before Vol1 BD

Chaney Before Vol2 BD

Cat and the Canary Standard BD

Charley Chase 1927 BD

Floating Weeds BD