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Since part of my original post disappeared....here it is again....

It is amazing how at least once a year we get a "sighting" that a print of LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT exists.

I read the posting by "Sid Terror" and found a lot of problems with it.

First off, the fact that the parties (except Ted Newsome) are dead, makes me question the validity of this story. Maybe it is too many tall tales by Boze Hadleigh-types, but it does make one wonder.

Second, EVERY film archive and archivist I know would JUMP at finding the print. I cannot believe NO archive -- or even a studio like Warners who owns the MGM library -- would not pounce on this find.

Third, Dick May was at MGM since the early 1970s (possibly even the late 1960s) and did a COMPLETE catalog of all the films, examining every reel. My friend and fellow Chaney fan, Jon Mirsalis has his hand-written notes for everything. By the way, Dick May also moved to Turner & Jon asked him about LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT, BIG CITY, TOWER OF LIES and THUNDER (before the recent clips emerged) and he said that with absolute certainty that MGM had no material on any of them.

(As an aside, Jon told me that it was while doing a complete catalog of all holdings that the print of THE ANIMAL KINGDOM (1932) turned up in the vault, which was previously considered lost.)

I hate to say it, but as of now it sounds like another rumor to add to the pyre.

That is NOT to say a print could never show up. Look at the lost footage of THUNDER, or the recent discovery/restoration of 3 reels from Chaney's 1917 TRIUMPH, or that POOR JAKE'S DEMISE has turned up in Europe.

But unless a reliable source (like Kevin Brownlow) called me with the information and until I am sitting in a theatre and see the film projected on the screen, I remain VERY skeptical.

Michael F. Blake

TomWeaver999 wrote:

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Who's this Blake guy again?

Mr. Weaver,

Kindly go F^#@ yourself!

Warmest Wishes,
Michael F. Blake