London After Midnight is a 1927 silent horror lost film, starring Lon Chaney, Sr. and directed by Tod Browning. The plot concerns murder, entrapment, and a pair of suspected vampires. 1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ... DVD cover showing horror characters as depicted by Universal Studios. ... A lost film is a film which, for any of several reasons, is no longer in existence. ... Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera Lon Chaney, Sr. ... Charles Albert Browning, Jr. ... // Plot in literature, theater, movies According to Aristotles Poetics, a plot in literature is the arrangement of incidents that (ideally) each follow plausibly from the other. ... In jurisprudence, entrapment is a procedural defense by which a defendant may argue that they should not be held criminally liable for actions which broke the law, because they were induced (or entrapped) by the police to commit said acts. ... This article contains information that has not been verified. ...

Although the film was well-received, it is now lost: no copies of the film are known to exist, although there have been attempts at reconstructions based on the script and publicity shots. Browning later remade the film, with some changes to the plot, as Mark of the Vampire. A screenplay or script is a blueprint for producing a motion picture. ... Mark of the Vampire is a 1935 horror film, starring Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Bela Lugosi, and Lionel Atwill, and directed by Tod Browning. ...

The last known copy of the film was stored by MGM in a vault until destroyed by fire in 1967. For alternate meanings of MGM, see MGM (disambiguation). ...

In 2003, Turner Classic Movies commissioned famed restoration producer Rick Schmidlin ( Greed, Touch of Evil) to produce a 45 min. reconstruction of the film, using still photograhs. This was well received by horror fans and Schmidlin received the Rondo Award for his efforts. Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is a cable television channel similar to American Movie Classics (AMC) featuring classic movies from the MGM and Warner Brothers libraries. ... Rick Schmidlin is a producer / director / silent film scholar, born in 1954 in Paterson, New Jersey, whose work has focused on restorations, reconstructions and documentaries. ... Greed is a 1924 dramatic silent movie about an honest dentist whose wife wins a lottery ticket, only to become obsessed with money. ... Touch of Evil (1958), was one of the last and one of the greatest examples of film noir ever made. ... The Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

External Links

• Mike's "London After Midnight" Myths Page
• Jon C. Mirsalis Page on "London After Midnight"
• Review of the Stills Restoration
• 1000 Mispent Hours review of Stills Restoration