One Exciting Night (1922 film) - Directed by D. W. Griffith - Full Movie

A young orphan girl, courted by an unpleasant older wealthy man who has a hold over her adoptive mother, falls in love with a young stranger at a party. Odd noises begin to be heard as a group of bootleggers clandestinely try to get away with their hidden loot. One of them is killed and the young man is suspected of being the killer.

One Exciting Night is a 1922 American Gothic silent Mystery film directed by D. W. Griffith. The plot revolves around a series of murders on a wealthy estate and the attempts of the cast to uncover the murderer's identity. The success of both the Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood play The Bat (1920), as well as the 1922 stage play The Cat and the Canary, led Griffith to write and produce his own variation on the theme, which in turn led to the production of similar "murder mystery/old dark house" films such as The Ghost Breaker (1922), previously filmed by C. B. DeMille in 1914, The Bat (1926) based on the 1920 play, Midnight Faces (1926), The Cat and the Canary (1927), The Old Dark House (1932) and even the fabled London After Midnight (1927) with Lon Chaney.

Directed by: D. W. Griffith
Written by: D. W. Griffith (as Irene Sinclair)
Produced by: D. W. Griffith
Starring: Carol Dempster, Henry Hull, Morgan Wallace, Margaret Dale, Porter Strong
Cinematography: Irving B. Ruby, Hendrik Sartov
Production company: D.W. Griffith Productions
Distributed by: United Artists
Release date: October 2, 1922
Running time: 128 minutes
Country: United States
Language: Silent (English intertitles)