"Author Daniel Titley offers a fascinating look at the history of one particular film--and the industry practices in the late 1920s Hollywood. Profusely illustrated with stills, reproductions of actual film frames, and copies of everything from working scripts to the Spanish Photoplay novelization, any silent movie lover would come away enlightened after reading this giant of a book. Fans of Lon Chaney should be ecstatic. Through the marvels of interlibrary loan, I managed to spend a few weeks with this fascinating tome and am already plotting to add a copy to my collection."