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Director:
Writers:
Tod Browning (story)
Waldemar Young (scenario)
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Release Date:
17 December 1927 (USA) more
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Tagline:
LON CHANEY in a great Scotland Yard Mystery more
Plot:
The abandoned home of a wealthy man who supposedly committed suicide five years earlier is taken over by ghoulish figures - could they be vampires? full summary | add synopsis
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better then nothing, a sad story more (18 total)

Cast

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Lon Chaney ... Professor Edward C. Burke
Marceline Day ... Lucille Balfour
Henry B. Walthall ... Sir.James Hamlin
Percy Williams ... Williams, Balfour's Butler
Conrad Nagel ... Arthur Hibbs
Polly Moran ... Miss Smithson, the New Maid
Edna Tichenor ... Luna, Bat Girl
Claude King ... Roger Balfour
Andy MacLennan ... Bat Girl's Assistant
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Allan Cavan ... Real Estate Broker (uncredited)
Jules Cowles ... Gallagher (uncredited)
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Directed by
Tod Browning 
 
Writing credits
Tod Browning (story "The Hypnotist")

Waldemar Young (scenario)

Joseph Farnham (titles)

Produced by
Tod Browning .... producer
Irving Thalberg .... producer (uncredited)
 
Cinematography by
Merritt B. Gerstad  (as Merrott B. Gerstad)
 
Film Editing by
Harry Reynolds 
Errol Taggart (uncredited)
 
Set Decoration by
Cedric Gibbons (settings)
A. Arnold Gillespie (settings) (as Arnold Gillespie)
 
Makeup Department
Lon Chaney .... makeup artist (uncredited)
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Harry Sharrock .... assistant director (uncredited)
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Wallace Chewning .... assistant camera (uncredited)
 
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Lucia Coulter .... wardrober
 
Music Department
Jack Feinberg .... set musician (uncredited)
Sam Feinberg .... set musician (uncredited)
 
Other crew
Ernst Luz .... cue sheet compiler
 
Crew believed to be complete


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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Hypnotist (UK)
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Runtime:
69 min (22 fps)
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Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
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Trivia:
It is believed that this film existed until 1967. Inventory records indicated that the only remaining print was being stored in MGM's vault #7 which was destroyed by fire in 1967. By that time, all other elements had been destroyed or were missing. more
Quotes:
Luna, Bat Girl: Remember... Lucille... you... are... doing... this... for... your... father. more
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Has this movie been found? I've seen ads for it on TCM and it's part of "The Lon Chaney Collection" DVD set!
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1 out of 5 people found the following review useful.
better then nothing, a sad story, 13 January 2003
Author: gbruno (gbruno@attbi.com) from pittsburg, california

this film has been edited in photo stills and a copy of the original script by rick schmidlin and was aired on tcm on halloween night 2002. i think he did a great job on it. well, i saw the stills version on halloween night in 2002 and it was enjoyable for 50 minutes, which is the only way we will see the film, because the last known print of the film known to exists was burnt up in vault #7 at the mgm studio in 1967 and since then no prints were found and it was on the a.f.i. lost films list in 1980 along with "cleopatra(1917)",edison's "frankenstein(1910)", "little red riding hood(1922)", "greed(1925)" and many others. i never saw his stills version of "greed(1925)" or his remastered version of "touch of evil" ,but i did see his special edition of "elvis: that's the way it is(1970)". i did.'t see tod browning's remake of london after midnight which starred bela lugosi as the vampire and he called the remake "mark of the vampire(1935)". i read at some website that a copy of london after midnight was found at some farm house (no folling), the farmer showed the film to the studio and they said they will release it on vhs and dvd, but it will be delayed until 2022, because the film is damaged a little bit, because the it was under a chicken's nest for god knows how long. well if you want to e-mail me for more information, just send me a e-mail.

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