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Midnight Faces has all the standard ingredients of the creepy old house horror mystery, including clutching hands from a shadowy cloaked assassin who uses secret passages to make his escapes, a frightened heroine, stalwart hero, personable friend and comic butler.
Midnight Faces is a fun little haunted house horror movie, with all the macabre visuals and eerie atmosphere you could hope for. Unfortunately, the one black character is a racist caricature.
- Bennett Cohen
- Otto K. Schreier Productions
Midnight Faces: Directed by Bennett Cohen. With Francis X. Bushman Jr., Jack Perrin, Kathryn McGuire, Edward Peil Sr.. A young man inherits a mansion in a Florida swamp from an uncle he never knew he had.
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- Horror, Thriller
- Bennett Cohen
- 1926-03-25
“Midnight - the innocent little hour that is blamed for almost everything.” This mostly unremarkable and by-the-numbers mystery film features some common tropes of the period that did not age well, such as having the only black actor in the film portray a bumbling and cowardly servant.
“Midnight Faces” was released in 1926 and was directed by Bennett Cohen. It is a silent movie. It is also your basic “Old Dark House” mystery. It’s not the best Old Dark House Mystery. There were dozens done in the twenties and thirties.
Midnight Faces (1926) is a silent film starring Francis X. Bushman, Jr. and Jack Perrin. The film is an 'old dark house' murder mystery in the same genre as One Exciting Night (1922), The Ghost Breaker (1922), The Bat (1926) and The Cat and the Canary (1927).
A young man inherits a mansion in a Florida swamp from an uncle he never knew he had. When he, his assistant and the estate's executor arrive at the house, the audience catches sight of someone crawling in the window, though the house is supposed to be unoccupied. As the house staff begins to arrive they sense a strange presence in the house, and when a young woman no one knows runs into the ...
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