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Plot summary
Johnny Goodlittle works at the general store in Danburg and has just earned a diploma as an amateur detective from a correspondence course. He and his co-worker Amos Rugg both court Betty Watson, the owner's daughter. Wealthy farmer John Bowman is kidnapped after two strangers lure his car off the road. When the wreckage is found, a search party forms. The disappearance happened near an old house that once was a mental sanitarium and now stands empty. Amos takes Betty for a drive, and Johnny follows a stranger.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Monster (1925)
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- The Monster may have been the first horror film ever to top the North American box office: it took in $55,600 for the week ending February 18, 1925, the highest gross Variety listed for any theater nationwide that week.
- It is remembered as an early prototype "old dark house" movie and a precedent for horror subgenres such as mad scientists with imbecilic assistants.
