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Post by Silent Scream Queen on Mar 21, 2022 18:28:58 GMT -5
Dircted by Norman Z. McLeod.
Starring Sylvia Sidney and Chester Morris, with Boris Karloff.
Remake of a 1919 film of the same name, that starred Lon Chaney. Only three minutes of this film (1919 Chaney one) survive.
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Post by endo on Mar 22, 2022 12:02:22 GMT -5
Shame that's all that's left of it. Do you know if it's just not been preserved or was it lost in that fire? Anyway, a little Karloff is better than no Karloff at all!
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Post by Silent Scream Queen on Mar 22, 2022 12:32:33 GMT -5
It's a pity it's lost, and it was a huge success at the time, it was more popular than Broken Blossoms, The Birth of a Nation, and The Kid in a popular magazine's readers poll at the time.
You'd think given the popularity it might have survived, but I read only 15% of silent films survive. I suppose it just faded from memory and the reels were junked. A shame.
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Post by Silent Scream Queen on Mar 22, 2022 12:43:40 GMT -5
Oops, I badly phrased my first post.
I mean less than three minutes of the Lon Chaney version survive.
The 1932 one with Karloff exists in its entirety. I edited the post for clarity.
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