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The Top of New York (1922)

The Top of New York poster
Directed by
William Desmond Taylor
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
50 min
Rated
NR
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman in New York City is caught between two men and a moral crisis. The film follows her as she makes choices that affect everyone around her.

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What happens

The Top of New York is a lost 1922 American silent drama film directed by William Desmond Taylor and written by George James Hopkins, Julia Crawford Ivers and Sonya Levien. The film stars May McAvoy, Walter McGrail, Pat Moore, Edward Cecil, Charles Bennett, and Mary Jane Irving. The film was released on June 18, 1922, by Paramount Pictures, four months after director Taylor's murder, and was the last one he completed. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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