LONDON after MIDNIGHT FOUND?

[ProfGriffin]

http://thehorrordrunx.yuku.com/topic/753

There's a bit of a web story going around.  Read for yourself and decide.  Tell yourself...it's couldn't happen here.

Prof. Griffin

[Monsters For Sale]

First METROPOLIS now this

Let us all hope this is true.

[Monsters For Sale]

Ah, hell.  I just read the full article.

Now I don't know if I will spend the rest of the day feeling frustrated over a true story or just some tall tale hoax.

Nuts.

[Meek]

     Meek says, go ahead and pull this one(holds up right leg)--its got bells on.

[raycastile]

If I had found that film, I don't care what obstacles stood before me, I guarantee we would all be watching it now.  Anyone who doubts that obviously doesn't know me very well.  So I share David Colton's bewilderment that this individual held the film in his hands and simply shrugged his shoulders and put it back on the shelf, remaining silent for 10 years.  It does not make sense.

[Nightmares in plastic]

A thing that always puzzled me is the fact that London after Midnight never made it into a Castle Films 8 mm home movie.
It was still in existence before the fire 1967.  Sure a cheap license. Maybe because it was misplaced long before to begin with....?

Story sounds fishy, but 1988 was long before the internet & the kind of networking we are used to today.
Who might had listen back then?

Does anyone know of this movie was ever released in Germany? (I don't have the Riley book)
And if yes, what was the title? I wouldn't be too surprised if someone ever looked after it in german archives,
because Chaney and his films are virtually unknown to movie buffs here.

Rainer E.

[Mike Scott]

Anybody ever hear of this "Sid Terror" guy, before? I find it hard to believe someone, on something like this, who doesn't want you to know their real name. I'll believe it when I see the DVD!

[Meek]

   Rainer: I don't know about M-G-M's overseas film distribution but Universal did quite a lot of business in Germany and I think had some sort of agreement with UFA. Somewhere there shold be records, paperwork or some mention of what films of M-G-M's were sent to foreign markets.

  "Meek"

[Nightmares in plastic]

I just did the obvious and checked IMDB: Turns out it was called "Um Mitternacht" in Germany 1928, but was also released in Austria twice called "London um Mitternacht" and "Der Vampyr".
I try to call a friend from the Murnau Society, maybe he know where to look for it ......

Rainer E.

[mjaycox]

I hate these kind of hoaxes. They build you up to tear you down.

[ramsey37]

Story sounds fishy, but 1988 was long before the internet & the kind of networking we are used to today.
Who might had listen back then?

True, there weren't any online resources to speak of in 1988 to announce such an important discovery, but I'm pretty sure newspapers, film magazines, silent film clubs, and film historians all existed then, and would've been more than enough to spread the word to make restoration happen. I'll believe this when the film actually turns up....
George

[Mego73]

I'll believe it when I see it

[moonvisage]

Sid Terror is doolally! If you read his profile,he comes across as an absolute fantasist.

His great grandfather was max schreck,but,he has no proof.

It looks to me like he is just hyping himself up and his horror punk rock image,to give himself a more serious,respectable bit of credibility within the horror communities.It all reads like a sam spade novel in parts.Sorry Sid/Sam,i just don't believe it.

[DBCrader]

     And how many times have we heard this before???  Like many others here, I'll believe it when I see it... not that I'm anxiously awaiting THAT!!!  I fear, that after so much hype, it would only be a disappointment... after all, it IS really a murder mystery, and not a monster movie...