Surviving Footage of The Miracle Man (1919)

Surving footage from George Loane Tucker's The Miracle Man (1919). Starring Thomas Meighan, Betty Compson and Lon Chaney.

"Two fragments of the film survive: the first is a segment of one of Paramount's Movie Milestone series, showcasing their studios' greatest achievements. This clip shows both a segment from the conclave in Chinatown as well as the healing scene, which was praised by critics as one of the most powerful scenes yet put on film.

The second clip that survives is part of a 1931 compilation film called The House That Shadows Built."

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• Loane
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• M.
• Cohan
• Frank
• L.
• Packard
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• Film

[MsTammyjo777]

OMG, I'm getting creeped out... I looked up old lost films, and every lost film or old film has Lon Chaney in it!!!!!!! I'm starting to call it the return of the phantom!!!!!

[thisgunforhire05]

The greater portion of silent films are lost; it's just that Lon Chaney happens to be in some of the most sought after (London After Midnight, The Miracle Man, The Tower of Lies etc.), which is partially due to the fact of his garnering of a huge cult following.

[AnimaniacsBIGGESTFan]

*Sniff* T-that was s-so beautiful... God Bless Lon Chaney and The Boy... :*)

[MildredDavisLloyd]

I do want to see London After Midnight very much, but THIS is the lost Lon Chaney movie I REALLY REALLY want to see! It was voted as one of the best movies of the year and just seeing this clip and pics of Chaney as The Frog. I am dying to see it!

[yayoineko]

How does he do that!? He's awesome, no actors could do that kind of performance today without CG.

[kellielovesroger]

Charlie Sheens rare cameo there at the end! haha Looks like him. thumbs up if you agree!

[barbarasprague]

It truly is a shame that so many silent movies that were HUGE in there days are Gone! Many early motion pictures are lost because the nitrate film used in that era was extremely unstable and flammable. Additionally, many films were deliberately destroyed because they had little value in the era before home video. I read that back in 1978 in Dawson City, Yukon, a bulldozer uncovered buried reels of nitrate film during excavation of a landfill.

[PhotoCher]

So very fascinating. I had no problem with the less than pristine condition. Thank goodness these clips are found at all. Love to think in the coming years a Shepard boy tending his flock in the Hollywood hills might toss a stone into a cave and hear the clang of film cans. Dead hillzy rolls.

[MFPhoto1]

This small clip shows Cheney's brilliance. I hope someday a complete print is found and restored.

[StukInTexAss]

What's really sad is that the so-called "surviving" films are all only blurry, truncated duplicates, as is the one posted here often made from other duplicates. Nothing is available from the long gone 35mm negatives. And NO one is going to see a vintage, shimmering silver nitrate celluloid 35 mm print .

[laffpro1]

Incredibly powerful ! Absolutely Brilliant !!!

[Drac39]

@MsTammyjo777 Chaney tragically has the most lost films out of any of the big silent stars

[cinema901]

lon chaney is great,

[cweirick]

in the very last last scene the boy is giving head to the preacher