London After Midnight (1927)

User Rating:

7.0/10   

Director:

Tod Browning

Writers:

Tod Browning (story)
Waldemar Young (scenario)
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Release Date:

17 December 1927 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Horror

Tagline:

LON CHANEY in a great Scotland Yard Mystery

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?

Plot Keywords:

Night | Butler | Inspector | Maid | Vampire

Cast

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)

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

Production Companies

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributors

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1927) (USA) (theatrical)

Also Known As:

The Hypnotist (UK)

Runtime:

69 min (22 fps)

Country:

USA

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Silent

Certification:

USA:Unrated

Company:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Trivia:

Lon Chaney wore a set of false animal teeth that hurt him so much that he could only wear them for a few minutes at a time. The teeth Chaney wore were not animal teeth, but were made of gutta-percha, a hard rubber-like material. What gave him the most discomfort were the wire loops around his eyes.

Quotes:

Professor Edward C. Burke: Watch my eye and think... think hard. You were in this room that night, remember?
Professor Edward C. Burke: Someone was after your nephew! Or maybe... me!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)

better then nothing, a sad story

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.