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While New York Sleeps

1920 · 80 min

A hushed, shadowy trio of moral fables that unfolds slowly, trading talk and glances for action.

Directed by
Charles Brabin
Genres
Drama, Crime
Starring
Estelle Taylor, William J. Locke, Marc McDermott
Overview
An anthology of three dramas over the course of one evening in New York, with separate characters in each story played in all three by Marc MacDermott and Estelle Taylor. In one, a woman who has married believing her first and wrothless husband has been killed finds him returning to her for blackmail. The second part is the life of a cabaret vamp and a detective tricking each other, while the third story recalls a man who realizes his son's wife is cheating upon him with the man who lives in the apartment above him.

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Directed by
Charles Brabin
Genres
Drama, Crime
Starring
Estelle Taylor, William J. Locke, Marc McDermott
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How it feels

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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • betrayal
    • deception
    • crime
    • guilt
    • love
    Places
    • big city
    • home
    Era
    period
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • anthology
    • twist ending
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action2
    Horror2
    Humour2
    Realism6
    Romance3
    Tension5
    Darkness6
    Complexity5
    Emotional weight5

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    Details

    Genres
    drama, crime
    Directed by
    Charles Brabin
    Written by
    Charles Brabin
    Starring
    Estelle Taylor, William J. Locke, Marc McDermott, Harry Sothern, Earl Metcalfe
    Runtime
    80 min
    Country
    United States of America

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