This film was reputed to have been highly influential to James Whale, when he made "The Old Dark House."
Narrator:
On a lonely pine-clad hill overlooking the Hudson, stood the grotesque mansion of an eccentric millionaire...
When the murdered lawyer falls from behind a concealed door, he falls face down, but in the subsequent scenes he is shown on his back.
Kino International distributed a video with the original 1927 musical setting compiled by James Bradford and adapted and performed by Eric Beheim and "The Cyrus West Players." It was produced by David Shepard using film materials from the David Bradley collection, and copyrighted in 1997 by Film Preservation Associates. The running time was 82 minutes.
None, English
$325,550