"The mystery thriller of the stage filmed with new effects!" 20 August 1927 Horror, Comedy, Mystery 84 mins
A group of potential heirs gather in a forbidding old house to learn which of them will inherit a fortune. Later, they learn that a flesh-rending maniac is loose.
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Laura La Plante as Annabelle West
Creighton Hale as Paul Jones
Forrest Stanley as Charles Wilder
Tully Marshall as Roger Crosby
Gertrude Astor as Cecily
Flora Finch as Susan
Arthur Edmund Carewe as Harry
Martha Mattox as Mammy Pleasant
George Siegmann as The Guard
Lucien Littlefield as Ira Lazar
Hal Craig as Policeman (uncredited)
Billy Engle as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Joe Murphy as Milkman (uncredited)
Paul Leni Director
Martin G. Cohn Editor
Charles D. Hall Art Direction
Gilbert Warrenton Director of Photography
Hugo Riesenfeld Original Music Composer
Robert F. Hill Screenplay
Paul Kohner Producer
Alfred A. Cohn Screenplay
Walter Anthony Writer
John Willard Theatre Play
Edward J. Montagne Story Supervisor
Lloyd Nosler Supervising Editor
Carl Laemmle Presenter
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Australia 21 January 1928
Canada 20 August 1927
Denmark 21 September 1927
Spain 20 January 1928
Finland 22 January 1928
United Kingdom 15 April 2024
Italy 15 July 1929
Mexico 03 September 1927
Netherlands 25 November 2011
Poland 19 December 1927
Portugal 25 June 1976
United States 14 August 1927
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