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May McAvoy and Edward Everett Horton.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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The Terror
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Nine reels / 85 minutes
Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Cast: May McAvoy [Olga Redmayne], Louise Fazenda [Mrs. Elvery], Edward Everett Horton [Ferdinand Fane], Alec B. Francis [Doctor Redmayne], Matthew Betz (Mathew Betz) [Joe Connors], Holmes E. Herbert (Holmes Herbert) [Goodman], Otto Hoffman [Soapy Marks], Joseph W. Girard [Superintendent Hallick of Scotland Yard], John Miljan [Alfred Katman], Frank Austin [Cotton, the butler], [?] Jules Cowles?, Conrad Nagel [the narrator of the spoken credit titles]
Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated [A Warner Bros. Production]. / Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. Scenario by Harvey Gates, from the play The Terror by Edgar Wallace. Costume design by Earl Luick. Music by Louis Silvers + [William Axt and Giuseppe Becce]. Cinematography by Barney McGill. Film editors, Jack Killifer and Thomas Pratt. Intertitles (silent version) written by Joseph Jackson. Presented by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. / Premiered 15 August 1928 at Warners Theatre in New York, New York. Released 6 September 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disc synchronized sound system. / The first Warner Brothers sound film without intertitle cards; touted as the second all-talking picture. The film was also released in the USA in a silent version by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated, on 20 October 1928. / Full-sound film.
Drama: Mystery.
Survival status: The film is presumed lost : the Vitaphone soundtrack discs survive.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 6 August 2024.
References: Drew-Speaking pp. 112, 132, 133, 279; Everson-Detective p. 30; Marrero-Vintage pp. 6, 29-30, 49; Ryall-Blackmail p. 16; Steinbrunner-Encyclopedia p. 408 : Website-ASFFDb; Website-IMDb.
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