One Exciting Night
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1922 lobby poster
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| Directed by | D. W. Griffith |
| Produced by | D. W. Griffith |
| Written by | D. W. Griffith (as Irene Sinclair) |
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Carol Dempster Henry Hull Morgan Wallace Margaret Dale Porter Strong |
| Cinematography | Irving B. Ruby Hendrik Sartov |
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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128 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language |
Silent film English intertitles |
One Exciting Night is a 1922 American Gothic silent Mystery film directed by D. W. Griffith.
The plot revolves around the murder of a bootlegger and the attempts of the cast to uncover the true murderer. The film, inspired by the Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood play The Bat (1920), led to the production of similar "murder mystery/old dark house" films such as The Ghost Breaker (1922), previously filmed by C. B. DeMille in 1914, The Bat (1926) based on the play, Midnight Faces (1926), The Cat and the Canary (1927), The Old Dark House (1932) and even the fabled London After Midnight (1927) with Lon Chaney.
At the time of this film, Henry Hull was starring on Broadway in the stage version of John Willard's The Cat and the Canary.
This film received a brief release on VHS in the 1990s. In March 2014 the film was released on all-region DVD by Alpha Video.
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