Lon Chaney Collection 3 Films Plus London After Midnight DVD

Though no actual film footage is known to exist, award-winning filmmaker/archivist Rick Schmidlin (he worked on the restorations of Touch of Evil and Greed) has been able to faithfully reconstruct the entire narrative through an extensive collection of more than 200 still photographs and a complete continuity script. A new score by acclaimed composer Robert Israel will complete the presentation. In it, Lon Chaney showed off his talents as a make-up artist, creating what became the first real American vampire, complete with the elements that children today associate with the sinister creatures: eyes bulging in their sockets, menacing pointed teeth and a cape.

 

Producer: Irving Thalberg

Director: Tod Browning

Stills Restoration Director: Rick Schmidlin

Screenplay: Waldemar Young, Joseph Farnham, Tod Browning (based on the story "The Hypnotist")

Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons, A. Arnold Gillespie

Cinematography: Merritt B. Gerstad

Editing: Harry Reynolds, Errol Taggart

Music for stills restoration: Robert Israel

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).

BW-40m. Closed captioning.