While London Sleeps
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Director Howard Bretherton Screenplay Walter Morosco Duration | 5/10 IMDb Genre Action, Adventure, Crime Story by Walter Morosco Country USA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language English (Intertitles) Release date November 27, 1926 Writer Walter Morosco (story), Walter Morosco (scenario) Cast Rin-Tin-Tin (Rinty), Helene Costello (Dale Burke), Walter Merrill (Thomas Hallard), John Patrick (Foster), Otto Matieson (London Letter), George Kotsonaros (The Monk)Similar movies Related Howard Bretherton movies Tagline An Amazing Tale of Limehouse with "The Wonder Dog" in a new role | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
While london sleeps
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. 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. The film was also released with a Vitaphone sound-on-disc soundtrack with a music score and sound effects.
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Plot
Inspector Burke of Scotland Yard concentrates all his forces on the capture of London Letter, a notorious criminal leader in the Limehouse district who possesses both Rinty, a splendid dog, and a man-beast monster that ravages and kills at his master's command. Burke almost apprehends the gang in the midst of an attempted theft, but Rinty's uncanny perceptions foil Burke's coup, and Foster is killed for betraying the gang. When Rinty loses in a fight against another dog, Burke's daughter, Dale, rescues Rinty from London Letter's abuse, and he becomes devoted to his new mistress. At the criminal's order, the monster kidnaps Dale and imprisons her. Burke and his men wound London Letter while on his trail, and Rinty finds him dying. In a ferocious battle Rinty kills the monster.
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Preservation status
No prints of this film are known to survive suggesting it is lost. It is on the Lost Film Files list for missing Warner Bros., but the soundtrack survives intact on Vitaphone disks in the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
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