The Unholy Night

The Unholy Night is a 1929 film about a mad strangler who haunts the London fog.

Directed by Lionel Barrymore. Written by Ben Hecht, Dorothy Farnum, Edwin Justus Mayer, and Joseph Farnham.

Between darkness and dawn...strange figures, stranger events fill this enthralling thriller to overflowing!  (taglines)

Lord 'Monte' Montague

• If this fellow had had his way with me I don't suppose I'd ever have had another brandy and soda. That's a dismal thought, isn't it?... You know it hadn't occurred to me before, but this brandy-and-soda business put it into my mind, that being dead must be rather like living in America, you know? It's a dry state.
• You see, our family never have ideas; that's why they're so successful in politics, I suppose.
• It was rather difficult navigating in the fog, you see. I remember thinking at the time that it was as thick as my creditors used to be before my uncle died... Yes. You know, I never began to live until my uncle died.
• I haven't led a blameless life, but I at least I've never given any woman cause to kill me - that is, no more cause than most men give most women.
• There may be some fellows around who don't think I'm an ornament to society, but then I've had that same idea about myself at times.

Dialogue

Sir James Rumsey: I'm a teetotaler, thank you.

Lord 'Monte' Montague: Oh, you shock me. And you've such a nice, kind face, too. When did you take the veil?

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Sir James Rumsey: Wasn't it you who screamed?

Polly, the maid: I never scream unless a fella gets gay with me.

Taglines

• All Talking Thrilling Mystery Marvel
• Between darkness and dawn...strange figures, stranger events fill this enthralling thriller to overflowing!

Cast

• Ernest Torrence — Dr. Richard Ballou
• Roland Young — Lord 'Monte' Montague
• Dorothy Sebastian — Lady Efra Cavender
• Natalie Moorhead — Lady Violet 'Vi' Montague
• Boris Karloff — Abdul
• Polly Moran — Polly, the maid
• George Cooper — Fry the Orderly
• Sōjin Kamiyama — Lee Han, the mystic
• Claude Fleming — Sir James Rumsey
• Clarence Geldart — Inspector Lewis (as Clarence Geldert)
• John Miljan — Major Arthur Mallory
• Richard Tucker — Colonel Davidson
• John Loder — Captain Dorchester
• Philip Strange — Lieutenant Williams
• John Roche — Lieutenant Savor
• Lionel Belmore — Major David Endicott
• Gerald Barry — Captain Bradley
• Richard Travers — Major 'Mac' McDougal

External links

• The Unholy Night quotes at the Internet Movie Database