Sing Sing Nights (film)

Sing Sing Nights is a 1934 American film directed by Lewis D. Collins, based on the 1927 novel by American Author Harry Stephen Keeler Hutchinson 1927, Dutton 1928, Ward amp Lock 1929.

The film reflects and expands on the framing story, but omits original tales told by the three prisoners in Keelers novel The Strange Adventure of the Giant Moth, The Strange Adventure of the Twelve Coins of Confucius, and The Strange Adventure of the Missing Link. The second of these stories, The Twelve Coins, was the basis for the 1935 Bela Lugosi film The Mysterious Mr. Wong. The opening credits of Sing Sing Nights state that the film was suggested by the novel by Harry Stephen Keeler. The original name of the victim, Howard Craynell is changed to Floyd Cooper in the film, as is the name of the novels character Eastwood, who is called Howard Trude in the film, and whose nationality is also changed from English to American. The Nationality of the character McCaigh is also changed, in this case, from American to English. Finally, there is the added detail that only one man is actually guilty and the identity of the guilty party is determined by means of a lie detector.

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