The Monster is a 1925 silent horror film with Lon Chaney, that is considered the first horror film to top the US box office.
Plot[]
A general store clerk and an amateur detective investigates a mysterious disappearance close to a remote and empty mental sanatorium. During his investigation he enters that sanatorium and notices very strange goings-on there.
Cast[]
- Lon Chaney as Gustave Ziska
- Johnny Arthur as Johnny Goodlittle
- Gertrude Olmstead as Betty Watson
- Hallam Cooley as Amos Rugg
- Charles Sellon as Russ Mason, a constable
- Walter James as Caliban
- Knute Erickson as Daffy Dan
- George Austin as Rigo