The Monster (1925 film)

The Monster is a 1925 film about a clerk who doubles as an amateur detective investigating some strange goings-on at a remote mental sanitarium.
 * Directed by Roland West. Written by Willard Mack, Roland West, and Albert Kenyon, based on the play by Crane Wilbur.

You'll Guess! You'll Gasp! You'll love it! (taglines)

Dr. Ziska

 * Rigo, a patient - I keep him in a trance. Sometimes he gets out - does terrible things.


 * A strange case - but I deal in strange cases!


 * I have only one guest chamber - but no doubt we can make the gentlemen comfortable.


 * Caliban - see that the guests have the USUAL attention!


 * My servant - don't allow him to frighten you - the poor creature is dumb!

Doctor Edwards

 * I am Dr. Edwards - the owner of this sanitarium. We were overpowered and imprisoned here by my patients. Our lives are in constant peril.


 * Ziska, who was once a famous surgeon, controls the others...Caliban imagines he's Ziska's slave - Rigo is dangerous, while Dan is quite harmless ...


 * They must have built those devilish traps and devices after they imprisoned us.

Betty Watson

 * I've found a hidden passage - - it goes straight down into the dark!

Dialogue

 * Betty Watson: How can I ever be worthy of a wonderful man like you?
 * Johnny Goodlittle: Use your ingenuity.


 * Dr. Ziska: I am Dr. Ziska - In the absence of Dr. Edwards I am in charge here.
 * Amos Rugg: We met with an accident and would like to use your phone.
 * Dr. Ziska: I'm sorry, I have no telephone. But I can't permit you to leave the house on so wild a night.


 * Johnny Goodlittle: Doctor, shall we see you in the morning?
 * Dr. Ziska: Who knows if I will ever see the morning?

Taglines

 * A mystery thriller and a love adventure. The romance of a boy and a girl in a mansion of hidden motives. A film you'll want to see all over again.
 * You'll Guess! You'll Gasp! You'll love it!

Cast

 * Lon Chaney — Gustave Ziska
 * Johnny Arthur — Johnny Goodlittle
 * Gertrude Olmstead — Betty Watson
 * Hallam Cooley — Amos Rugg
 * Charles Sellon — Russ Mason
 * Walter James — Caliban
 * Knute Erickson — Daffy Dan
 * George Austin — Rigo
 * Edward McWade — Luke Watson
 * Ethel Wales — Mrs Watson
 * Herbert Prior — Doctor Edwards
 * Matthew Betz — Detective Jennings