While the City Sleeps (1928)

Directors

Jack Conway

Cast

Lon Chaney, Anita Page, Carroll Nye, Wheeler Oakman

The story

The story begins with a focus on the Plain Clothes Men, an elite division of the New York police force. These detectives blend into the city in plain clothes, allowing them to infiltrate the underworld and make arrests with surgical precision. They are hated by criminals, especially for their clandestine meetings, where suspects are interrogated and analyzed in rotating shifts.

Genres

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