One Exciting Night (1922 film)

For the 1944 British film, see One Exciting Night (1944 film).

One Exciting Night
1922 lobby poster
Directed by	D. W. Griffith
Written by	D. W. Griffith (as Irene Sinclair)
Produced by	D. W. Griffith
Starring	Carol Dempster Henry Hull Morgan Wallace Margaret Dale Porter Strong
Cinematography	Irving B. Ruby Hendrik Sartov
Production company	D.W. Griffith Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	October 2, 1922 (1922-10-02)
Running time	128 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

One Exciting Night is a 1922 American Gothic silent Mystery film directed by D. W. Griffith.

The plot revolves around the murder of a bootlegger and the attempts of the cast to uncover the true murderer. The film, inspired by the Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood play The Bat (1920), led to the production of similar "murder mystery/old dark house" films such as The Ghost Breaker (1922), previously filmed by C. B. DeMille in 1914, The Bat (1926) based on the play, Midnight Faces (1926), The Cat and the Canary (1927), The Old Dark House (1932) and even the fabled London After Midnight (1927) with Lon Chaney.

At the time of this film, Henry Hull was starring on Broadway in the stage version of John Willard's The Cat and the Canary.

Cast

• Carol Dempster as Agnes Harrington
• Henry Hull as John Fairfax
• Morgan Wallace as J. Wilson Rockmaine
• Margaret Dale as Mrs. Harrington
• Charles Emmett Mack as A Guest
• Charles Croker-King as The Neighbor
• Porter Strong as Romeo Washington
• Frank Sheridan as Detective
• Frank Wunderlee as Samuel Jones
• Grace Griswold as Auntie Fairfax
• Irma Harrison as The Maid
• Herbert Sutch as Clary Johnson
• Percy Carr as The Butler

Home media

This film received a brief release on VHS in the 1990s. In March 2014 the film was released on all-region DVD by Alpha Video.

External links

• One Exciting Night at IMDb
• Synopsis at AllMovie
• Lantern slide at silenthollywood.com