THE MONSTER
Starring Lon Chaney, Gertrude Olmsted and Johnny Arthur
PHOTOPLAY
April, 1925
B-R-R-R-R, this one will give you delicious creeps. Several prominent citizens disappear mysteriously in Danbury. Johnny Arthur, a correspondent school detective graduate, determines to solve the mystery. He is hurled unexpectedly into the town's sanitarium with Betty Watson and another of her suitors. Here they meet with weird and hair-raising adventures. Johnny solves the mystery, which we shan't spoil by revealing, and wins the girl and $5,000 reward. A real thriller.
THE MONSTER
Starring Lon Chaney, Gertrude Olmsted and Johnny Arthur
PICTURE PLAY
May, 1925
"The Monster" is the thriller of the month. You cannot quite make out whether Crane Wilbur's story is melodrama or burlesque but anyway, it is thrilling and ingenious. Lon Chaney plays the role of a lunatic doctor who becomes king of an insane asylum. He and the inmates have all kinds of fun until an amateur detective, played by Johnny Arthur, puts an end to the autopsies and other carryings on. Arthur, a new face, makes a real comedy hit, while Chaney just revels in the trick stuff. "The Monster" will be one of the most popular pictures of the season.
THE MONSTER
Starring Lon Chaney, Gertrude Olmsted and Johnny Arthur
MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC
May, 1925
After seeing Lon Chaney, the great artist in that wonderful masterpiece, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," I regret that I was tempted to see him in this. "How hath the mighty fallen!" He should never have lent himself to such a sad affair. I was told that it was very gruesome -- that it would give me the creeps and the nightmare. 'Tis to laugh! Most of the audience in our largest and most beautiful of all theaters, The Capitol, laughed repeatedly, and for a long while I thought the audience stupid -- that they did not know -- that something big was coming. Alas, they were right, I was wrong. I was looking for some hideous monster who was going to do some terrible things. He did not appear. Å few traps and trappings, an amateur detective, a very mild monster who did nothing but walk around with a long cigar and a leer, a few underground tunnels and the chute-the-chute -- that's all. Until "The End," I felt that something definite was going to happen, but it did not.
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