{"product_id":"london-after-midnight-thomas-mann-9781593939939","title":"London After Midnight: A New Reconstruction Based on Contemporary Sources (hardback)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTod Browning's silent movie horror film, \u003cem\u003eLondon After Midnight\u003c\/em\u003e (1927) starring Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Conrad Nagel, Henry B. Walthall, and Polly Moran, has intrigued silent movie fans for decades. Now considered a lost film, surviving production stills, a Photoplay Edition novel, scripts, and other memorabilia give some feel for the actual film, but their varying plot gaps, anomalies, and inconsistencies leave viewers wondering how the actual film unfolded . . . until now.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthor Thomas Mann offers a fascinating reconstruction based on his transcription of a rediscovered 11,000-word fictionization first published in \u003cem\u003eBoy's Cinema\u003c\/em\u003e (1928) that may resolve the conflicts between previous versions. His detailed comparison of all surviving sources sheds new light on the discovery of a second murder victim, a plot element not in the final film; Lon Chaney's two different makeups in playing detective Edward C. Burke; Henry Walthall as Sir James Hamlin holding two guns rather than one in the scene in which his character, under hypnosis, re-enacts a crime.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe last known film print is believed to have been destroyed in a 1967 MGM vault fire, but you can now take a front row seat into the haunted mansion filled with vampires, cobwebs, bats, and \"The Man of a Thousand Faces.\" \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the author: Thomas Mann is an independent scholar living in Washington, DC. He spent more than three decades as a general reference librarian at the Library of Congress. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Guide to Library Research\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford University Press, 2015) and of \u003cem\u003eHorror \u0026amp; Mystery Photoplay Editions and Magazine Fictionizations\u003c\/em\u003e (McFarland, 2004; vol. II, BearManor Media, 2016).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Mann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1593939930\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781593939939\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e BearManor Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/25\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d","brand":"Thomas Mann","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43938508439807,"sku":"9781593939939","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_45fcb557-7ebd-4ca2-a1d0-922a19cbbfd1.jpg?v=1681436098","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/london-after-midnight-thomas-mann-9781593939939","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}