

“Lon Chaney in a great Scotland Yard mystery”
The abandoned Balfour House, the owner of which was found dead five years earlier, comes back to life with the arrival of two suspicious sinister-looking tenants. This film was lost in the 1965 MGM vault fire; only a few stills exist.
Directed by Tod Browning
User score
31 votes
Released
December 3, 1927
1h 9m
No Language
Budget → Revenue
$151.7K → $1M

Lon Chaney
Professor Edward C. Burke/The Man in the Beaver Hat

Marceline Day
Lucille Balfour

Henry B. Walthall
Sir James Hamlin
Percy Williams
Williams, Balfour's Butler

Conrad Nagel
Arthur Hibbs

Polly Moran
Miss Smithson, the New Maid

Edna Tichenor
Luna, Bat Girl

Claude King
Roger Balfour
Andy MacLennan
Bat Girl's Assistant
Allan Cavan
Real Estate Broker (uncredited)

Jules Cowles
Gallagher (uncredited)