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The Haunted House
(1928) American
B&W : Feature film
Directed by Benjamin Christensen

Cast: Larry Kent [Billy], Thelma Todd [nurse], Edmund Breese [Uncle Herbert], Sidney Bracey [Tully], Barbara Bedford [Nancy], Chester Conklin [Mr. Rackham], Flora Finch [Mrs. Rackham], William V. Mong [caretaker], Montagu Love [mad doctor], Eve Southern [sleepwalker], John Gough [chauffeur]

First National Pictures, Incorporated, production. / Produced by Wid Gunning. Scenario by Richard Bee and Lajos Biró, from a play by Owen Davis. Cinematography by Sol Polito. Edited by Frank Ware. Intertitles by William Irish (Cornell Woolrich). Original music score by Max Bergunker, Gerard Carbonara and Karl Hajos. Presented by Richard A. Rowland. / Released 4 November 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disk sound system. / Silent film, with synchronized music and sound effects.

Survival Status: The film is presumed lost.

Keywords: Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 23 January 2004.

References: Edmonds-Todd p. 269; Mottram-Danish p. 111.

 
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