While London Sleeps
1926 film by Howard Bretherton / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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While London Sleeps is a 1926 synchronized sound 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]
While London Sleeps | |
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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 |
Release date | November 27, 1926 |
Running time | 66 minutes 52 minutes (edited British print) |
Country | United States |
Languages | Sound (Synchronized) (English Intertitles) |
Budget | $119,000[1] |
Box office | $332,000[1] |
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]