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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Scott Lord on the Silent Film of Greta Garbo, Mauritz Stiller, Victor Sjostrom as Victor Seastrom, John Brunius, Gustaf Molander - the Golden Age of Swedish Silent Film........Lost Films in Found Magazines: Victor Seastrom directing John Gilbert and Lon Chaney, the printed word offering clues to deteriorated celluloid, extratextual discourse illustrating how novels were adapted to the screen; the photoplay as a literature, a social phenomenon; how it was reviewed, audience reception.
Scott Lord on Silent Film
Gendered spectatorship notwithstanding, in a way, the girl coming down the stairs is symbolic of the lost film itself, the unattainable She, idealized beauty antiquated (albeit it being the beginning of Modernism), with the film detective catching a glimpse of the extratextural discourse of periodicals and publicity stills concerning Lost Films, Found Magazines
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