The Silent House (1929)
January 2, 1929Release Date
The Silent House (1929)
January 2, 1929Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.

Mabel Poulton
T'Mala

Gibb McLaughlin
Chang Fu

Arthur Pusey
George Winsford

Gerald Rawlinson
Captain Barty

Albert Brouett
Peroda

Rex Maurice
Legarde

Raston Medrora
Mateo

Frank Perfitt
Richard Winsford

Arthur Stratton
Benson

Kiyoshi Takase
Ho-fang

George Pickett
Author

Walter Forde
Director / Editor

H. Fowler Mear
Writer

Geoffrey Faithfull
Director of Photography

A. Randall Terraneau
Director of Photography

W.G. Saunders
Art Direction

Archibald Nettlefold
Producer

John G. Brandon
Author
Details.
Release DateJanuary 2, 1929
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 28m
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The Silent House (also released as The House of Silence) is a 1929 British silent mystery film, directed by Walter Forde and starring Mabel Poulton, Gibb McLaughlin and Arthur Pusey. It was made in 1928 at the Nettlefold Studios in Walton-on-Thames and trade-shown in January 1929. The film was written by H Fowler Mear, based on a hit stage play by John G Brandon and George Pickett, but it was not a success at the box-office. A print of the film exists at the National Film Archive in London.
Chan Fu, the Oriental character played by Gibb McLaughlin, resembles Sax Rohmer's then-popular Fu Manchu character. Jonathan Rigby, in his book Studies in Terror, points out that "The film contains an almost de rigueur tribute to The Cat and the Canary when a corpse pitches forward from its concealment in a fireplace, as well as betraying a submerged uneasiness about Britain's colonial past that was to resurface in several British horrors of a later period."