While the City Sleeps Chinatown

by Jack Conway, A. P. Younger Joseph Farnham, Anita

$3,500 · Offered by Royal Books · No longer available

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM , 1928. Draft script for the 1928 silent film, seen here under the title Chinatown. Lon Chaney is an undercover police detective who attempts to catch a thief notorious for slipping out of criminal charges by killing any witnesses set to testify against him, though Chaney can't help but simultaneously get wrapped up with an attractive flapper along the way. Chaney hand-picked co-star Anita Page as his

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