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One Exciting Night is a american film of genre Comedy directed by D. W. Griffith released in USA on 2 october 1922 with Carol Dempster
One Exciting Night (1922)
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Add to a movie listOne 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 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.
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.
Actors
Carol Dempster
(Agnes Harrington)
Henry Hull
(John Fairfax)
Morgan Wallace
(J. Wilson Rockmaine)
Margaret Dale
(Mrs. Harrington)
Charles Emmett Mack
(A Guest)
Frank Sheridan
(Detective)
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