Three short stories with the same cast in each: "Out of the Night," in which a woman is saved from a bigamous dilemma by a burglar; "The Great White Way," in which a couple of con men pull their con on the wrong man; and "A Tragedy of the East Side," in which a man who cannot speak or move is the only witness to his son's murder..


Nightfall as narrative engine No other American film of 1924 treats darkness as both curtain and spotlight quite like While New York Sleeps. Charles Brabin, fresh from his Grand Guignol experiments with The Transgressor, jettisons the moral sermonettes of contemporaneous city symphonies and opts for a triptych that dr...

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" Nightfall as narrative engine No other American film of 1924 treats darkness as both curtain and spotlight quite like While New York Sleeps. Charles Brabin, fresh from his Grand Guignol experiments with The Transgressor, jettisons the moral sermonettes of contemporaneous city symphonies and opts for a triptych that drips with sardonic jazz-age nihilism. The result is a film that feels closer to a gin-soaked fever dream than to the uplift melodramas that clogged the era’s marquees. Each segment ..."
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