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Cast: Lon Chaney [Doctor Ziska], Gertrude Olmstead [Betty Watson], Hallam Cooley [Watson’s head clerk], Johnny Arthur [the under clerk], Charles A. Sellon [the constable], Walter James [Caliban], Knute Erickson [Daffy Dan], George Austin [Rigo], Edward McWade [Luke Watson], Ethel Wales [Mrs. Watson]

Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation production; distributed by [?] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer? / Produced by Roland West. Scenario by Willard Mack and Albert Kenyon, from the play The Monster by Crane Wilbur. Production manager W.L. Heywood. Cinematography by Hal Mohr. Intertitles by C. Gardner Sullivan. Edited by A. Carle Palm. / © 9 March 1925 by Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation [LP21216]. Released [?] 22 February or 16 March? 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Keywords: Hypnotism - Police: Detectives

Listing updated: 24 April 2008.

References: Aylesworth-Monsters p. 79; Bohn-Light p. 109; Eames-MGM p. 23; Edmonds-Todd p. 278; Everson-Detective p. 31; FilmDaily-1926 p. 47; Lahue-Gentlemen p. 55; Marrero-Vintage pp. 6, 22; Weaver-Twenty p. 77 : ClasIm-204 p. 4 : Website-AFI.