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London After Midnight gives Lon Chaney another opportunity to make his face even more threatening and unpleasant than usual. He does this because he is a highly efficient Scotland Yard detective on the trail of grave-walking, werewolfish murderers who haunt a house near London. The rest must remain a mystery; as such, it is well worth squirming about...
...Thirteenth Hour provides Lionel Barrymore with an opportunity to do a highly effective imitation of Lon Chaney imitating a three-fingered master crook. Despite his missing digit, Mr. Barrymore is capable of opening all kinds of sliding doors and secret panels; but he is incapable of stealing the picture from a police dog called Rex in the picture (real name Napoleon). Although at an important crisis he mistakes Mr. Barrymore for a wax dummy, this animal adds enormously to what would otherwise remain a not very startling reiteration of the Jekyll-Hyde theme complicated by stupid detectives...
Chief of Police Joseph Wakelin soon saw that the "extra" was the work of no Hot Springs newspaper, that it was evidently a publicity stunt for the film, Tell It To The Marines, starring Lon Chaney, showing that night at a local theatre owned by one Sidney M. Nutt. Chief Wakelin instantly caused Mr. Nutt's press agent, one Charles Hefley, to be arrested...
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...such jest: "Don't step on that spider! It might be Lon Chaney...