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While New York Sleeps (1920)

While New York Sleeps poster
Directed by
Charles Brabin
Genre
drama film, silent film, crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 20m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This silent crime drama tells three separate stories in New York. The same two actors play different characters in each episode. A copy exists today in a film archive.

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What happens

While New York Sleeps is a 1920 American crime drama film produced by Fox Film Corporation and directed by Charles Brabin, who was the husband of actress Theda Bara. The film tells three distinct episodic stories using the same actors, Estelle Taylor and Marc McDermott. Long thought to be a lost film like many other Fox Film productions from this period, a copy of this movie is now in the collection of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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