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London After Midnight (1927)
Country of Origin:
USA
Year of Production: 1927
Running Times: 47 mins
Length: 1733.40 metres / 7 reels
Format: black and white 35mm
Ratio: 1.33:1
Sound: silent
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: MGM
Producer: Irving Thalberg (uncredited)
2002 Reconstruction Producer: Rick Schmidlin
SCRIPT
Script: Waldemar Young
Story: The Hypnotist by Tod
Browning
Titles: Joseph Farnham
DIRECTION
Director: Tod Browning
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Merritt B. Gerstad
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editors: Harry Reynolds, Errol Taggart
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Wardrobe: Lucia Coulter
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Sets: Cedric Gibbons, A. Arnold Gillespie CAST
Lon Chaney (Burke)
Marceline Day (Lucille Balfor)
Henry B. Walthall (Sir James Hamlin)
Percy Williams (butler)
Conrad Nagel (Arthur Hibbs)
Polly Moran (Miss Smithson)
Edna Tichenor (Luna the bat girl)
Claude King (Roger Balfour)
Jules Cowles (Gallagher)
Allan Cavan (real estate broker)
Andy MacLennan (bat girl's assistant)
PLOT SUMMARY
Five years after the death of Roger Balfour,
his home is taken over by a sinister looking pair, a monstrous man
with large pointed teeth and his young female companion. Their arrival
reopens old wounds and when Balfour's body disappears from its tomb,
the couple immediately come under suspicion. But are they all they
seem to be?
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributor: MGM
TIMELINE
1927
December
3: USA – theatrical premiere
17: USA – theatrical release
2002
October
31: USA - reconstructed version television broadcast (on TCM)
POSTER TAGS
The Man of a Thousand Faces in a Great Detective Thriller!
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
La casa del horror – Spanish
title
The Hypnotist – UK title
London nach Mitternacht – Austrian title
Londres après minuit – French title
Londres Depois da Meia-Noite – Portugese title
Um Mitternacht – German title
Der Vampyr – Austrian title
LINKS
REMAKE
Mark of the Vampire (1935)
SEE ALSO
Fade to Black (1980)
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (2000)
Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
Matinee (1993)
Universal Horror (1998) KEYWORDS
crypts; hypnosis; hypnotism; old dark houses; police; suicide; tombs;
trances; vampires
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