London After Midnight

Dec 3, 1927

1h 9m

★ 6.6

Lon Chaney in a great Scotland Yard mystery

Overview

The abandoned Balfour House, the owner of which was found dead five years earlier, comes back to life with the arrival of two suspicious sinister-looking tenants. This film was lost in the 1965 MGM vault fire; only a few stills exist.

Genres

Horror

Mystery

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Cast

Professor Edward C. Burke

Lon Chaney

Lucille Balfour

Marceline Day

Sir James Hamlin

Henry B. Walthall

Williams, Balfour's Butler

Percy Williams

Arthur Hibbs

Conrad Nagel

Miss Smithson, the New Maid

Polly Moran

Luna, Bat Girl

Edna Tichenor

Roger Balfour

Claude King

Bat Girl's Assistant

Andy MacLennan

Real Estate Broker (uncredited)

Allan Cavan

Gallagher (uncredited)

Jules Cowles

Two former rivals reconnect over drinks and a quick bite. One is compulsively running through men and can’t kick the habit of drinking their blood, and the other is working through her trauma and settling down with a new career in monster counseling. Things get a little uncomfortable when the conversation turns to the same toxic lover that connected them — Count Dracula — one of whom is still entangled with him.

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