Sneha Girap (Editor)

One Exciting Night

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
7.2
/
10
1
Votes
Alchetron7.2
7.2
1 Ratings
100
90
80
71
60
50
40
30
20
10
Rate This

Rate This

Director
  
D. W. Griffith

Prequel
  
Orphans of the Storm

7/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Mystery

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

One Exciting Night movie poster

Language
  
Silent filmEnglish intertitles

Writer
  
D.W. Griffith (story)

Release date
  
October 2, 1922 (1922-10-02)

Genres
  
Silent film, Mystery, Comedy, Indie film, Black-and-white

Cast
  
Carol Dempster
(Agnes Harrington),
Henry Hull
(John Fairfax),
Porter Strong
(Romeo Washington),
Morgan Wallace
(J. Wilson Rockmaine),
Charles Croker-King
(The Neighbor),
Margaret Dale
(Mrs. Harrington)

Related D. W. Griffith movies
  
D W Griffith directed One Exciting Night and Dream Street, One Exciting Night and Orphans of the Storm are part of the same movie series, D W Griffith directed One Exciting Night and The Love Flower, D W Griffith directed One Exciting Night and The Girl Who Stayed at Home, D W Griffith directed One Exciting Night and The Sorrows of Satan

One Exciting Night is a 1922 American Gothic silent Mystery film directed by D. W. Griffith.

Contents

One Exciting Night silenthollywoodcomsitebuilderimagesONEEXCITIN

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.

Cast

  • Carol Dempster as Agnes Harrington
  • Henry Hull as John Fairfax
  • Morgan Wallace as J. Wilson Rockmaine
  • Margaret Dale as Mrs. Harrington
  • Charles Emmett Mack as A Guest
  • Charles Croker-King as The Neighbor
  • Porter Strong as Romeo Washington
  • Frank Sheridan as Detective
  • Frank Wunderlee as Samuel Jones
  • Grace Griswold as Auntie Fairfax
  • Irma Harrison as The Maid
  • Herbert Sutch as Clary Johnson
  • Percy Carr as The Butler

    • Home media

    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.

    References

    One Exciting Night Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    One Exciting Night IMDb One Exciting Night themoviedb.org