One Exciting Night (1922 film)
| One Exciting Night | |
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 1922 lobby poster | |
| Directed by | D. W. Griffith |
| Written by | D. W. Griffith (as Irene Sinclair) |
| Produced by | D. W. Griffith |
| Starring | Carol Dempster Henry Hull Morgan Wallace Margaret Dale Porter Strong |
| Cinematography | Irving B. Ruby fr |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
Release date |
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Running time | 128 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent film English intertitles |
One Exciting Night is a 1922 American Gothic silent Mystery film directed by D. W. Griffith.[1]
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 Ghost Breaker (1922), previously filmed by C. B. DeMille in 1914, The Bat (1926) based on the play, Midnight Faces (1926), The Cat and the Canary (1927), The Old Dark House (1932) and even the fabled London After Midnight (1927) with Lon Chaney.[2]
At the time of this film, Henry Hull was starring on Broadway in the stage version of John Willard's The Cat and the Canary.
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
Home media
This film received a brief release on VHS in the 1990s.[3] In March 2014 the film was released on all-region DVD by Alpha Video.[4]
References
- ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:One Exciting Night
- ^ The American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films: 1921-30 c.1971 by The American Film Institute
- ^ One Exciting Night at silentera.com database
- ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:One Exciting Night
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