A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Lon Chaney (center, top) and Johnny Arthur (center, bottom). Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Lon Chaney [Doctor Ziska], Gertrude Olmstead [Betty Watson], Hallam Cooley [Watson’s head clerk], Johnny Arthur [the under clerk], Charles A. Sellon [the constable], Walter James [Caliban], Knute Erickson [Daffy Dan], George Austin [Rigo], Edward McWade [Luke Watson], Ethel Wales [Mrs. Watson]; [?] ? [John Bowman]

Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation production; distributed by [?] Metro-Goldwyn Distributing Corporation? / Produced by Roland West. Scenario by Willard Mack and Albert G. Kenyon, from the play The Monster by Crane Wilbur. Production management by W.L. Heywood. Photography (cinematography) by Hal Mohr. Film editor, A. Carle Palm. Titles (intertitles written) by C. Gardner Sullivan. / © 9 March 1925 by Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation [LP21216]. Released [?] 22 February or 16 March? 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Hypnotism - Law: Enforcement: Police: Detectives

Listing updated: 25 February 2020.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Aylesworth-Monsters p. 79; Bohn-Light p. 109; Eames-MGM p. 23; Edmonds-Todd p. 278; Everson-Detective p. 31; FilmYearBook-1926 p. 47; Lahue-Gentlemen p. 55; Marrero-Vintage pp. 6, 22; Weaver-Twenty p. 77 : ClasIm-204 p. 4 : Website-AFI.

Home video: DVD.