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The Monster is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by Roland West released in USA on 16 march 1925 with Lon Chaney
The Monster (1925)
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Add to a movie listThe Monster is a 1925 silent comedy horror directed by Roland West, based on the play by Crane Wilbur, and starring Lon Chaney and Johnny Arthur, and is remembered as an antecedental Old Dark House movie, as well as a precedent to many subgenre of horror films. The film has been shown on TCM network with an alternate, uncredited musical score.
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Johnny Goodlittle (Johnny Arthur), an aspiring detective, enters an abandoned sanitorium while investigating a disappearance. Here, he discovers that Ziska, a renegade mad doctor, has taken over the asylum. Now Ziska has captured Betty, Johnny's romantic interest, to use in his mad experiments.Actors
Lon Chaney
(Dr. Ziska)
Johnny Arthur
(Johnny Goodlittle)
Gertrude Olmstead
(Betty Watson)
Hallam Cooley
(Amos Rugg)
Charles Sellon
(Russ Mason)
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