| While London Sleeps | |
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 Still from the film | |
| Directed by | Howard Bretherton |
| Written by | Walter Morosco |
| Starring | Rin Tin Tin Helene Costello Walter Merrill |
| Cinematography | Frank Kesson |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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Running time | 66 minutes 52 minutes (edited British print) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English Intertitles) |
| Budget | $119,000[1] |
| Box office | $332,000[1] |
While London Sleeps is a 1926 Warner Bros. film about a police-dog, Rinty, who helps Scotland Yard defeat a dangerous criminal organisation known as the Mediterranean Brotherhood that operates out of the Limehouse district of London. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process. Walter Morosco wrote the screenplay. It was the first of many films directed by Howard Bretherton, and one of several created for Rin Tin Tin, a German Shepherd dog used in films during the 1920s and 1930s. Only the sound discs to the film survive today with the visual film portions being lost.[2][3] The British release prints censored the more horrific aspects of the film.[4]
George Kotsonaros only appeared in two horror films, this one and The Wizard (1927), and he played a beast-man in both movies. He died in a car accident in Alabama in 1933.[4]
- ^ a b Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 5 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
- ^ Soister, John T. (2004). Up from the Vault: Rare Thrillers of the 1920s and 1930s. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publ. pp. 50–56. ISBN 978-0-7864-1745-2.
- ^ "Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List". www.silentera.com.
- ^ a b Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era. Midnight Marquee Press. p. 308. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.