While New York Sleeps (1920)

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

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

More films like this

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.

episodicatmosphericmelodramaticgrittyshadowypacedtensenoirish

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)

More like this

• Love Madness (1920)
• Parted Curtains (1920)
• The False Road (1920)
• April Folly (1920)
• Blackbirds (1920)
• The Green Flame (1920)
• The White Moll (1920)
• A Double-Dyed Deceiver (1920)
• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.