Scott Lord on Silent Film

Monday, June 16, 2025

Scott Lord Silent Film: Lon Chaney in The Monster (West, 1925)

Roland West directed Lon Chaney during 1925 for Metro Goldwyn in "The Monster", costarring Gertrude Olmstead. "The Monster" was photographed by cameraman Hal Mohr.

In his biography Faces, Forms, Films, The artistry of Lon Chaney, author Robert Gordon Anderson views M.G.M, having starred Lon Chaney in films directed by the foreign directors Victor Sjostrom, as having previously made "prestige" film with the actor. "The remainder of Chaney's M.G.M. films were changes-of-pace. 'The Monster', in spite of the implications of its title, was more slapstick than horror and one could not be sure Chaney took the whole thing seriously. 'In While The City Sleeps' he played, with no make up, a detective,"

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