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The Monster (1925)

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Film details

Featuring

Lon Chaney Gertrude Olmstead Hallam Cooley
Country

USA
Year

1925
Genres

Detective drama Horror
Type

Film
Category

Fiction

Synopsis

Horror, mystery. Investigating on behalf of an insurance company the suspicious vanishing of a rich farmer, Detective Jennings comes to Danbury, a small town close to an empty asylum. He is helped in his search by Johnny Clerk, an assistant store clerk.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Dr Ziska
    
    Lon Chaney
  - Betty Watson
    
    Gertrude Olmstead
  - Amos Rugg, Watson's head clerk
    
    Hallam Cooley
  - Johnny Goodlittle, the under clerk
    
    Johnny Arthur
  - constable
    
    Sellon, Charles A.
  - Caliban
    
    Walter James
  - Daffy Dan
    
    Knute Erickson
  - Rigo
    
    George Austin
  - Luke Watson
    
    Edward McWade
  - Mrs Watson
    
    Ethel Wales
Credits
- Unknown:
  - Director
    
    Roland West
  - Production Company
    
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  - Producer
    
    Roland West
  - Production Manager
    
    W.L. Heywood
  - Scenario
    
    Willard Mack
  - Scenario
    
    Albert G. Kenyon
  - Titles by
    
    C. Gardner Sullivan
  - Adaptation
    
    Roland West
  - Original play
    
    Crane Wilbur
  - Director of Photography
    
    Hal Mohr
  - Film Editor
    
    A. Carle Palm

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