While the City Sleeps (1928)

19281h 06mdir. Jack ConwayUnited Statessilent filmdrama film

With Lon Chaney, Anita Page, Carroll Nye, Wheeler Vivian Oakman, Mae Busch, Polly Moran, Lydia Yeamans Titus

While the City Sleeps is a 1928 American synchronized sound crime drama film about a tough New York City police detective, played by Lon Chaney, out to catch a murdering gangster. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-film Western Electric Sound System process. The film was directed by Jack Conway, written by Andrew Percival Younger, and co-starred Anita Page, Carroll Nye, Wheeler Oakman, and Mae Busch.

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