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Shadows of the Night (film)

1928 American silent film directed by D. Ross Lederman

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ18636529 ↗
Source-derived summary

Shadows of the Night is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by D. Ross Lederman and written by Robert E. Hopkins and D. Ross Lederman. The film stars Flash the Dog, Lawrence Gray, Louise Lorraine, Warner Richmond, and Tom Dugan. It was released on October 26, 1928, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

A copy of Shadows of the Night is housed at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, France.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Shadows of the Night (film)” is 1928 American silent film directed by D. Ross Lederman. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Shadows, Night and film, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1928—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1928. For this dossier, Shadows, Night and film is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “1928 American silent film directed by D. Ross Lederman” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18636529. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1928.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Shadows of the Night (film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.