One Exciting Night
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For the 1944 British film, see One Exciting Night (1944 film).
| One Exciting Night | |
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 1922 lobby poster |
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| Directed by | D. W. Griffith |
| Produced by | D. W. Griffith |
| Written by | D. W. Griffith (as Irene Sinclair) |
| Starring | Carol Dempster Henry Hull Morgan Wallace Margaret Dale Porter Strong |
| Cinematography | Irving B. Ruby Hendrik Sartov |
| Studio | D.W. Griffith Productions |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release date(s) | October 2, 1922 |
| Running time | 128 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent film English intertitles |
One Exciting Night is a 1922 American Gothic silent Mystery film directed by D. W. Griffith.
The plot revolves around the murder of a bootlegger and the attempts of the cast to uncover the true murderer. The film, inspired by the Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood play The Bat (1920), led to the production of similar "murder mystery/old dark house" films such as The Bat (1926) based on the play, The Cat and the Canary (1927), The Old Dark House (1932) and even the fabled London After Midnight (1927) with Lon Chaney.
At the time of this film, Henry Hull was starring on Broadway in the stage version of Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Cat and the Canary.
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[edit] Cast
- Carol Dempster as Agnes Harrington
- Henry Hull as John Fairfax
- Morgan Wallace as J. Wilson Rockmaine
- Margaret Dale as Mrs. Harrington
- Charles Emmett Mack as A Guest
- Charles Croker-King as The Neighbor
- Porter Strong as Romeo Washington
- Frank Sheridan as Detective
- Frank Wunderlee as Samuel Jones
- Grace Griswold as Auntie Fairfax
- Irma Harrison as The Maid
- Herbert Sutch as Clary Johnson
- Percy Carr as The Butler
[edit] Home media
This film received a brief release on VHS in the 1990s.[1] [2]
[edit] References
- ^ One Exciting Night at silentera.com database
- ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institue c. 1971
[edit] External links
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