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Lon Chaney.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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London After Midnight
Also known as Londres après minuit in France; The Hypnotist in the United Kingdom
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 5687 feet
Directed by Tod Browning
Cast: Lon Chaney [Professor Edward C. Burke], Marceline Day [Lucille Balfour], Henry B. Walthall [Sir James Hamlin], Conrad Nagel [Arthur Hibbs], Claude King [Roger Balfour], Percy Williams [Williams, Balfour’s butler], Polly Moran [Miss Smithson, the new maid], Edna Tichenor [Luna, the bat girl], Andy MacLennan [the bat girl’s assistant], Allan Cavan [the real estate broker], Jules Cowles [Gallagher], Fred Gamble [a real estate man], Eddie Sturgis [Burke’s assistant]
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A Tod Browning Production; A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture]. / Scenario by Waldemar Young, from the screen story “The Hypnotist” by Tod Browning. Unit management by George Noffka. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons and A. Arnold Gillespie. Wardrobe (costume design) by Lucia Coulter. Assistant director, Harry Sharrock. Cinematography by Merritt B. Gerstad. Camera assistant, Wallace Chewning. Film editor, Harry Reynolds + [Errol Taggart]. Titles (intertitles written) by Joe Farnham (Joseph Farnham). / © 2 December 1927 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation [LP25289]. Released 3 December 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: The Hypnotist. The last known copy of the film was lost in an MGM vault fire in 1967. In 2002, Rick Schmidlin completed an approximation presentation of the film’s original storyline through use of production photographs, the original intertitles and a new music score. / Silent film.
Drama: Crime.
Survival status: The film is presumed lost.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Crime: Murder - Death: Murder - Hypnotists - Law: Enforcement: Police: Detectives - United Kingdom: England: London: Scotland Yard - Vampires
Listing updated: 8 December 2024.
References: Aylesworth-Monsters pp. 97, 146; Aylesworth-Movie pp. 43-44, 75; Blake-Films p. xv; Everson-American p. 310o; Everson-Detective pp. 31-33; Lahue-Gentlemen p. 49; Manchel-Terrors pp. 51, 59; Marrero-Vintage pp. 6, 22, 23, 24, 25, 31, 158; Sweeney-Coming p. 116; Thompson-Lost pp. xiv, xv, xviii; Weaver-Twenty p. 77 : ClasIm-301 p. 47 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
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