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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

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