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Cast : Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Conrad Nagel, Henry B. Walthall, Edna Tichenor, Polly Moran, Andy Maclennan, Jules Cowles and Claude King.
Directed by Tod Browning.
The last known copy of the film was destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire, along with hundreds of other rare early films, making it one of the most sought-after lost silent films.
Roger Balfour is found dead in his London home one night. Five years later, the Hamlin residents witness strange lights within the now-forsaken Balfour mansion before realising the new tenants to be two vampiric figures of a man in a beaver-felt top hat with long hair and sharp teeth, and a silent pale woman wearing long robes. This prompts Sir James, to call Burke in once again ....
Cast : Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Conrad Nagel, Henry B. Walthall, Edna Tichenor, Polly Moran, Andy Maclennan, Jules Cowles and Claude King.
Directed by Tod Browning.
The last known copy of the film was destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire, along with hundreds of other rare early films, making it one of the most sought-after lost silent films.
Roger Balfour is found dead in his London home one night. Five years later, the Hamlin residents witness strange lights within the now-forsaken Balfour mansion before realising the new tenants to be two vampiric figures of a man in a beaver-felt top hat with long hair and sharp teeth, and a silent pale woman wearing long robes. This prompts Sir James, to call Burke in once again ....
