{"product_id":"london-after-midnight-a-new-reconstruction-based-on-contemporary-sources-hardback-hardcover","title":"London After Midnight: A New Reconstruction Based on Contemporary Sources (hardback) - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas Mann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 116\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.31 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51799999676704,"sku":"9781593939939","price":48.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b94893d1a9f6c0f34311912db6ad159d.webp?v=1780829428","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/london-after-midnight-a-new-reconstruction-based-on-contemporary-sources-hardback-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}